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In the Fight for Open Nonprofit Data, Everything Changed in June

By Created automatically from RSS feed Posted on July 2, 2015 Posted in Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds Tagged with data, Government, information, Justin Duncan, Markets for Good, nonprofit, open data, science

This post was created automatically from a feed, and was originally published at: http://www.marketsforgood.org/in-the-fight-for-open-nonprofit-data-everything-changed-in-one-month/ In recent years, the federal government has taken strides towards making its public data available in standardized, machine-readable formats. In the future, we will look back at …

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UK Crime Data: Feeling is Believing

By Created automatically from RSS feed Posted on July 1, 2015 Posted in Data Journalism, Informing Decision-making, Journalism, Public safety, Transparency Tagged with API, crime, data, Data Journalism, journalism, Media, OKFN, open data, perception, Police, science, statistics, trust, UK Statistics Authority

Latest crime data shows that the UK is getting significantly more ‘peaceful’. Last month, the Institute for Economics and Peace published the UK Peace Index, revealing UK crime figures have fallen the most of all EU countries in the past …

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The business proposition of open aid data: Why every U.S. agency should default to transparency

By Created automatically from RSS feed Posted on June 30, 2015 Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with Publish What You Fund, science

This is a guest post from Sheila Herrling, Senior Vice President for Social Innovation at the Case Foundation and member of Publish What You Fund’s U.S. Advisory Committee I’m a big believer in transparency. And not just because it’s the …

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What does impact really mean?

By Created automatically from RSS feed Posted on June 18, 2015 Posted in Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds Tagged with Digital Science, impact, open data, research, science

Digital Science recently hosted a Research Impact Spotlight event, the second in our Spotlight series following on from our Open Data Spotlight in March, writes Jonathan Adams. The aim of the Digital Science Spotlight series is to ‘shine a light’ …

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Community Microbiomes: Chatting Cat Scat with Kittybiome’s Holly Ganz

By Created automatically from RSS feed Posted on May 26, 2015 Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Visualising data Tagged with biomedical, Cats, community genomics, Crowdfunding, Genome, GigaBlog, GigaScience, Holly Ganz, kickstarter, Kittybiome, Microbiomes, open data, science, Scott Edmunds

All Cats (Microbiomes) are Grey? Regular readers will have seen our interest in “community genome” projects, supported by crowdfunding and alternative means (fashion shows in case of the “peoples parrot”), and we’ve been pleased to see the Azolla fern and …

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GigaScience Pushes Metabolomics Open Data & Training

By Created automatically from RSS feed Posted on May 13, 2015 Posted in Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds Tagged with GigaScience, mass spectrometers, Metabolomics, molecules, open data, organisms, science, Scott Edmunds

With our focus on large-scale biological data, mass spectrometry has been one area of particular interest and attention. Metabolomics involves the detection and quantification of small molecules (metabolites) in living organisms using mass spectrometers. The measurements made from these sophisticated …

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Open Data and Public Safety

By Created automatically from RSS feed Posted on April 6, 2015 Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public safety Tagged with buildings, deaths, disaster, fire, open data, public safety, risk, science, smoke alarms

Share As people who are really passionate about data, we are constantly thinking about ways to use it to make the world a better place. Every 2 hours and 42 minutes a civilian death from fire occurs, according to the …

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‘Open Source, Open Science’ meeting report – March 2015

By Created automatically from RSS feed Posted on March 24, 2015 Posted in Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with biomedical, collaboration, GigaScience, open science, science

Open Science has emerged into the mainstream, primarily due to concerted efforts from various individuals, institutions, and initiatives. This small, focused gathering brought together several of those community leaders. The purpose of the meeting was to define common goals, discuss …

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Saving the world with Laravel & Cron

By Created automatically from RSS feed Posted on August 19, 2014 Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with Bath, data, disaster, earthquake, open data, public safety, Richard Speigal, science, scraper, Twitter, Webunknown

Open data can warn people when it’s too late to save their homes from an earthquake. I made it work in Bath, here’s how to protect your town. The spec: To create an alert system that detects significant earthquakes reported …

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