On Thursday 21 July I attended the open data masterclass being held at the University of Reading. The make-up of the class was mainly those with some professional experience, but there were also a few from the 3rd sector who were looking to learn more about open data.
Overall, it was a very useful day. Here are some of the main points and links from the talks (morning) and practicals (afternoon):
- http://www.geovation.org.uk/ – open data forum
- http://data.gov.uk/ – UK government open data portal – not all of it is in a geo-format
- http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/ – data visualisation site
- http://opendatasearch.org/ – open data metadata catalogue
- http://data.worldbank.org/indicator – World Bank open data
- INSPIRE and GEMINI metadata standards are important, as are open geo data standards
- http://timetric.com/help/graph-visualization-and-analysis-gallery/ – data visualisation company
- to monetise open data businesses need to reimagine the revenue model – advertising, support etc
- http://www.opendefinition.org/ – help with licence terms
- most time is spent obtaining and analysing data. Least time is spent on cool visualisations
- visual economic impact reports have been used in government to get the point across quickly
- http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ – more data visualisation
- http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/os-opendata.html – OS mapping
- ESRI use RSS feeds of data into applications such as Instapaper and Google refine. Data can come from Guardian data blog, London data store and CEH amongst others
- think about analysis – centroid to centroid distances or node to boundary?
- ArcGIS.com is being aggressively developed and includes open data
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