The journey has begun when FutureEverything came to Hyper Island to give us an open brief around citizen science. As an outcome of our… Continue reading on Medium »
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: story telling
“The woodcutter”, an open data parable
In a time long past, in a land far away, there was once a great forest. It was a huge sprawling forest containing every known species of tree. And perhaps a few more. The forest was part of a kingdom that had been…
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Using Open Data, a Scientist Is Finding New York City’s Best Stories
As the creator of popular NYC blog I Quant NY, Ben Wellington has a knack for turning data scrapes into civic action.
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Why journalists and technologists must collaborate
The launch of the Kenya Open Data Initiative in July 2011 led to the release of hundreds of data sets which, for a few discerning journalists and editors, opened up a new way of discovering, reporting and disseminating news. From…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Data, Data Journalism, Informing Decision-making, Journalism, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: Code for Kenya, collaboration, CountySafety, data, Data Journalism, Data stories, FindMySchool, International Journalists' Network, journalism, Kenya open data, Kenya Open Data Initiative (KODI), open data, StarHealth, story telling
The Perils of Data Story Telling:…
Many times, my young children ask me to read them a story before sleeping. We have wide variety of children’s books from…
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