Comments on: Show me the data http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:45:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: So where can I find free NFL data sets? « Code and Football http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-150292 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:50:49 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-150292 [...] in a machine readable form, wouldn’t it? Then you could get some of the advantages Jon Udall speaks about in his article, “Data should be free.“ First, obviously, you need data. Then, more [...]

]]> By: Making Public Data Public http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-145776 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:43:26 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-145776 [...] Jon Udell has mentioned, there's a ton of data online, but it's not often we can find it, often hidden in the [...]

]]> By: Matt http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-134378 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:07:31 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-134378 Hey Jon,

It seems like you’re interested in open sourced government databases. Find the Best is an objective comparison search engine that allows you to find a topic, compare your options and select the best choice for you. FindTheBest allows you to make faster and more informed decisions by offering you objective information that has been compiled by FTB researchers or drawn from universities, non-profits, NGOs and governmental agencies. Companies and individual reviewers may claim, edit and add listings, but all edits are reviewed by FTB before publishing.

Matt, Editor at FindTheBest

]]> By: Some Datasets Available on the Web » Data Wrangling Blog http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-122218 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:30:37 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-122218 [...] Over the past year, I’ve been tagging interesting data I find on the web in del.icio.us. I wrote a quick python script to pull the relevant links from my del.icio.us export and list them at the bottom of this post. Most of these datasets are related to machine learning, but there are a lot of government, finance, and search datasets as well. I probably won’t get around to organizing and posting them to the wiki myself, but theinfo community should be able to figure out what to do with them. The concept reminds me a lot of Jon Udell’s post on public data. [...]

]]> By: Sam http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-47770 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:28:59 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-47770 http://www.iquango.org/mellanrummet/ – in progress visualisation of UNCD data
http://www.mptables.com/ – UK political data

Meinedata (on which they’re both based) is from
mysociety.org’s volunteers, and is a public and free
equivalent and completely inspired by gapminder (most of the
functionality, not enough of the prettiness yet). It lets you
take an excel file and have it appear in the flash system for
people to play with.

More details on my blog here : http://www.disruptiveproactivity.com/

]]> By: Yong Bakos http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-43702 Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:28:34 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-43702 John,
I wanted to share this with you as I came across it today. Have you heard of opencongress.org and the Sunlight Foundation? They seem to be doing some really cool and effective things to bring public information to light.

]]> By: Revisiting language evolution in del.icio.us « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-40694 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:29:47 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-40694 [...] evolution in del.icio.us Filed under: Uncategorized — Jon Udell @ 8:29 am Recently I began keeping track of interesting public data sources using the del.icio.us tag judell/publicdata, and invited others [...]

]]> By: Coby Logen http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-38829 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:53:19 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-38829 I assume you are familiar with http://www.fedstats.gov, but this is a beta site that you might find interesting: http://betaced.census.gov It is a federal collaboration of statistical agencies to integrate community data.

]]> By: Flowing Data / Making Public Data Public http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-38274 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:54:23 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-38274 [...] Jon Udell has mentioned, there’s a ton of data online, but it’s not often we can find it, often [...]

]]> By: Must reads « Journalinks http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-37696 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:12:29 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-37696 [...] Show me the data – John Udell Oproep om alle openbare databanken te linken in del.icio.us [...]

]]> By: paulmiller71 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-37569 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:21:30 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-37569 I’d briefly like to echo the earlier references to the OKFN… and pick up on the importance of effective licensing.

As my colleague Rob Styles said at the recent WWW2007 conference (http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2007/05/presentations_from_www2007_ope.php), we are not helping prospective users when we fail to apply explicit and visible licensing terms to content that we make available. We may well publish with the intention that our work should be freely used, but the lack of an explicit permission doesn’t actually mean that; in many jurisdictions it means “All Rights Reserved”.

Creative Commons has done some great work in raising the profile of “Some Rights Reserved” for works covered by the laws of Copyright; a Creative Commons license gives the creator of some creative work (a story, a song, a picture…) the ability to explicitly grant permission for it to be used and reused in a wide range of ways that would previously require the law-abiding to contact the creator and request permission.

Creative Commons licenses, though, appear not to apply very well to data. Leveraging a European notion of the ‘database right’, we developed something called the Talis Community License (http://www.talis.com/tdn/tcl/) to meet our own needs with regard to ensuring the use and reuse of data contributed to some of the services we host.

This has proved successful, and – in the absence of anyone else stepping forward – we are now embarking on some work to strengthen the legal standing of this license, rename it to remove the direct link to ourselves, develop expressions of the license that utilise contract law in jurisdictions where the database right does not apply, and facilitate a wide community of stakeholders to which the ownership and upkeep of the license can be given. If anyone is interested, please do get in touch.

]]> By: Nodalities http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-37562 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:05:52 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-37562 Some follow-up Platform thoughts

Last week I wrote a blog post looking at some of the different ways in which ‘Platforms’ are being brought to web scale and pervasiveness. In writing, I concentrated upon the quite different approaches that I saw Facebook and…

]]> By: 2007年7月7日 at elearnspace[中文版] http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-37155 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:20:10 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-37155 [...] 数据和可视化我还是对数据可视化和资讯超载乐此不疲（我现在里斯本……要在明天的IADIS*会议上就此主题发言）。Jon Udell 强调开放数据的重要性——OECD*也提供了重要数据，联合国最近公布了公用数据库。数据开放后，我们可混合、再融合、对比、扩充数据，以无尽的方式利用它。Hans Rosling作了两场精彩演讲，展示了2006年和 2007年数据可视化的力量。强有力的内容。注:IADIS：信息社会发展国际协会 [...]

]]> By: brianswivel http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-37053 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:09:09 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-37053 Jon,

Just last week a very historic meeting took place in Istanbul, Turkey–The OECD’s World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge, and Policy. All the world’s data leaders gathered in one place to discuss measuring the progress of societies (http://www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_31938349_1_1_1_1_1,00.html). What emerged from that conference is a sweeping vision for the future of making the world’s data useful. Essentially, what the Kyoto Protocol is to environment and climate change, the Istanbul Declaration (http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/14/46/38883774.pdf) will be to measuring the world’s progress with data. The OECD and it’s member organizations have a ton of credibility for this type of visionary undertaking: they did invent GDP after all.

Professor Hans Rosling’s Gapminder, Swivel and IBM’s Many Eyes were among the exhibitors at the conference and we had many conversations throughout the week about the future of data. These are indeed exciting times.

You briefly mentioned Professor Rosling. It is impossible to overestimate the impact the Professor and his vision for liberating the world’s data has had for those of us following his trail. Not to mention the vision of the Secretary General, Chief Statistician, Head of Dissemination and many others at the OECD, who all deserve a big nod as well.

A highlight for us at the conference was that 1200+ delegates were asked to vote for the two exhibitors they felt showed the most vision and capability for helping people turn data into knowledge and along with a fantastic project called Mapping Worlds (http://www.mappingworlds.org/) Swivel was voted a winner. We then nervously presented Swivel to all the delegates with the UN-style earpieces and translators, it was exhilarating.

Jon, it would be great to spend some time with you and talk more about the Istanbul Declaration and the future of data as you see it.

Brian Mulloy
CEO & Co-founder
brian@swivel.com
http://www.swivel.com

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-37035 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:20:51 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/05/show-me-the-data/#comment-37035 “The link to the Foo 07 summary should be”

Thanks!

“CKAN is a registry of open knowledge packages and projects”

Thanks! I’ll look through those to see which offer the kind of data suitable for analysis/visualization/decision-making, which is the sort of thing I’m interested in here.

“http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenDataLicensing”

Thanks! That’s particularly interesting in light of this week’s ITConversations podcast with Timo Hannay of Nature Publishing Group, who (among other things) is interested in making scientific data publishable and creditable separately from the analysis of the data.

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