Insights and Entertainment from Open Data with Jonathan Stoneman

Monday 2 November 2015·jonathan stoneman @stonepeople

Insight & Entertainment

from Open Data

Introductions• By the end of this session you will –

• Have some ideas about how to interrogate a dataset and find patterns

• Know where you could find data – especially on arts & entertainment

FINDING INTERESTING

PATTERNS – “STORIES”

• id (unique ref no.)

• name

• gender

• dates of birth/death

• century of activity

• place of birth, place of death

Data contains following

• id (unique ref no.)

• name

• gender

• dates of birth/death

• century of activity

• place of birth, place of death

What could you look

for?

They came to the UK……

Another view

FINDING RELIABLE DATA

SOURCES

Finding open dataGovernment data: eg

www.data.gov.uk and

www.data.gov

Google advanced search

Data.gov.uk

site:github.com inurl: tate art

To find tate.csv…

site:gov.uk ....ac.uk, edu, gov, br, fr, de, ba....

Google…

site:gov.uk ....ac.uk, edu, gov, br, fr, de, ba....

filetype:xls....csv, (also doc, ppt, pdf)

site:gov.uk ....ac.uk, edu, gov, br, fr, de, ba....

filetype:xls....csv, (also doc, ppt, pdf)

inurl:....eg public, upload, 2015, inspection, report, dashboard, data....

WHAT NEXT FOR YOU?

What next?

Ask yourself, and make a note –

Following this session, what do you

want to do with Open Data?

What sources might you use?

What training/reading might you need?

Theodi.org/coursesOpen Data in a Day

Open Data Science

Open Data for Smart Cities

Winning Business with Open Data

Finding Stories in Open Data

Open Data in Practice

And …….

Further readingBlastland – The Tiger That Isn’t

Bradshaw – Datajournalism Heist*

Bradshaw – Scraping for Journalists*

Rogers – Facts Are Sacred*

Yau – Visualize This

Tufte – The Visual Display of

Quantitative Information *=e-book only