Safe Hallways, Successful Tests Every year, New York City public schools conduct an in-depth survey of their parents, students and teachers. According to the Department of Education, the survey, one of the largest of any kind in the nation, “helps…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
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Safe Hallways, Successful Tests
Tagged with: Ben Wellington, Hallways, iquantNY, New york, open data, public safety, schools, science, students, USA
Measles Reporting and The Dangers of Semi-Open Data
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Measles Reporting and The Dangers of Semi-Open Data If you read local news, you might see headlines like: “Private schools putting NYC at risk for measles outbreak” in The New York Post, “Immune to Logic: Some New York City Private Schools…
Tagged with: Ben Wellington, iquantNY, Measles, New york, open data, public health, public safety, schools, students, USA
Open Data: Going Beyond Solving Problems to Making the Impossible Possible
This also appears on Huffington Post As a global community, we are producing data at an astounding rate. The pace was recently described as a “new Google every four days” by the highly respected Andreesen Horowitz partner, Peter…
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Open Data: Going Beyond Solving Problems to Making the Impossible Possible
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As a global community, we are producing data at an astounding rate. The pace was recently described as a “new Google every four days” by the highly respected Andreesen Horowitz partner, Peter Levine, in a thought-provoking post addressing the challenge…
Tagged with: Communication, data, emergency, Huffington Post, Lisa Abeyta, open data, opportunities, problems, schools
Lessons from The Bath Schools Mashup
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It’s over a year since we put time aside to create our first little open data app and what started as a hacked solution to a personal problem has turned into a popular local resource. The Bath Schools Mashup has…
Tagged with: API, Bath, data visualisation, Department for Education (DfE), education, mashup, Nudge, OFSTED, open data, performance, Richard Speigal, schools, Webunknown
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