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Category Archives: Open data
2012
The Promise and Challenge of Using Big Data to Address World Problems
Last month, we wrote that as data and analytic tools become more prevalent in society, the consumerization of data has opened up a whirlwind of opportunities for quality of life improvements around the world. In this same spirit, we’re blogging about additional options for people across the globe to use data and tools to learn about and contribute to a variety of quality of life improvements.
“Done well, big data has the potential to advance important social goals in areas such as disease surveillance, student curricula, and microcredit. Understanding big data’s potential for social impact and the barriers to capturing it are the first steps toward its effective use.”
That’s the last paragraph and the crux of this article about harnessing big data to address the world’s problems.
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Filed under: Big Data, Data Scientist, Open data, Unconventional Uses
2011
A Call to Free Up Public Data
Although summer has been over for quite some time, people from all over the world went to camp in Warsaw, Poland last week. But it wasn’t just any camp—it was the Open Government Data Camp 2011.
An annual event, the camp drew, well, everyone involved in the open data community, to a converted factory building in Warsaw, Poland to toss around ideas, write code and meet the folks behind open data projects in a number of countries around the world.
Since the Guardian newspaper launched its Free Our Data campaign over five years ago, open data has made its way into “digital policy packages and transparency initiatives all over the place—from city administrations in Berlin, Paris and New York, to the corridors of institutions like the European Commission or the World Bank,” according to this article.
The aim of the Free Our Data campaign is to make taxpayers’ data available to taxpayers for free because government works best when it’s open and transparent.
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