In his latest round-up of urban data visualisations, Max Galka reduces English and Welsh commuters to animated dots, reimagines New York as a video game, and explores Lisbon with the ‘graffiti grannies’ If you’ve ever found yourself packed like a…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
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This interactive map lets you watch who commutes to your city every day
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data Journalism, Journalism, Neat tools, Posts from feeds, Quality of life, Visualising data Tagged with: commute, data visualisation, mapping, Max Galka, ONS, open data, The Guardian
Interview for The Guardian on why open data doesn’t mean open government
I was recently interviewed for a piece in The Guardian about “Why open data doesn’t mean open government”. Here’s the section of the interview from which the article quotes: It is critical to remember the distinction between ‘open data’ and…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Open Government, Posts from feeds Tagged with: Jonathan Gray, open data, open government, The Guardian
Guardian features GODAN’s work on open data to combat global food shortage
Today the Guardian publishes an in-depth feature on the importance of open data in achieving food security and its vital role in helping to combat hunger in an era of population growth. Use cases from the GODAN/ODI discussion paper ‘how can…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Environment, Food, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Quality of life, Smart communities Tagged with: Agricultural Marketing Information Network (AGMARKNET), Agriculture, Food, Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (Godan), GODAN, nutrition, ODI, open data, The Guardian
How Africa can benefit from the data revolution
Neil Lawrence in The Guardian: “….The modern information infrastructure is about movement of data. From data we derive information and knowledge, and that knowledge can be propagated rapidly across the country and throughout the world. Facebook and Google have both made…
Open data can unravel the complex dealings of multinationals
Groups like OpenOil and Sourcemap could be the beginnings of an alternative accounting system that helps investors make sense of global businesses If you are a socially conscious investor trying to build a holistic picture of BP’s operations, where do…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Data Journalism, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Journalism, Posts from feeds, Saving money, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: assets, AuditFutures, Blockchain, Brett Scott, Common Good Balance Sheet, contracts, Economy for the Common Good, Ethereum, investors, mapping, multinationals, Open Corporates, open data, OpenOil, Provenance, Sourcemap, subsidiary companies, supply chain, The Guardian, Transparency
Doping scandals, open data, and the emergence of the quantified athlete
Blood-doping data from 12,000 tests and 5,000 athletes has been leaked to The Sunday Times and the German broadcaster ARD/WRD by a whistleblower at the International Association of Athletics Federations. According to a report in The Guardian, the data suggested…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: Ars Technica, athlete, athletics, data, doping, Glyn Moody, Olympics, open data, quantified, scandal, Snowden, The Guardian, Transparency, whistleblowing
Comments for Guardian article on appointment of Mike Bracken as UK’s Chief Data Officer
Post: 24 April 2015 There’s an excellent new article by Marc Ambasna-Jones on the Guardian website: Does the UK need a chief data officer? It includes some quotes from me on aspects related to open data. Following are the full…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: mapgubbins, Mike Bracken, open data, Owen Boswarva, The Guardian
Five ways open data can boost democracy around the world
Want fairer taxes, less corporate lobbying and more open politicians? Here’s how open data can help On 21 February, thousands of transparency activists, software developers, designers, researchers, public servants, and civil society groups are gathering at more than 100 cities…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Saving money, Transparency Tagged with: democracy, Jonathan Gray, open data, The Guardian
Devolution, Italian-style – the cities forging their own futures
Spaghetti open data and confiscated Mafia assets: Italy’s cities aren’t waiting around for PM Matteo Renzi’s promised reforms “This city doesn’t need a mayor, it needs a marketing expert,” said the former mayor of Florence, now Italian prime minister, Matteo…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Journalism, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: competition, Confiscati Bene, Eddy Adams, Francesco Carollo, Innova.To, innovation, Italy, Mafia, open data, Raffaele Barbato, Smart Cities, Spaghetti Open Data, The Guardian
Open government: getting beyond impenetrable data files
Simply making data available online isn’t enough – it needs to be created with the end user in mind Mathematician Blaise Pascal famously closed a long letter by apologising that he hadn’t had time to make it shorter. Unfortunately, his…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data Journalism, Journalism, Posts from feeds Tagged with: bad data, Blaise Pascal, data, Data Journalism, Jed Miller, journalism, open data, open government, The Guardian, Transparency