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Jan 20, 2015
Digital Strategy • Digital Training • Digital Training Strategy
Scamp: She SaysThe Power of Open Data
Tiffany St JamesThursday 01 July, 2010
What is Open Data
• Non personal data
• Information not code
• Figures, statistics
• Excel, tables, csv files
• Every report published
Why is this important?
• Public sector reform
• Global leadership positioning
• Transparency
• Social benefits
• Economic benefits
What did the UK Govt do?
• Opened up a repository for data
• Made a pre-requisite of departments to publish data
• Created an online community of developers
• Made ‘linked data’ a reality
It looks like this:
Why is this world class?
• A way of marking up data for the web
• Enables concepts to be linked together
• Letting people walk through the data by concept e.g. data that is about:
• Schools
• With a budget over £3m
• In South East of England
UNCLASSIFIED
How did they do it?
• Work with people who were best in class
• Establish processes for release
• Build a back end
• Soft launch
• Blogger briefings
• Meet the team
• Created visualisations to show people
Other apps include
• AirTEXT – airquality in London
• Asbo-rometer iPhone app
• Crowdspeak – 3000 candidates for election
• Compare the Care Home
• Day Nurseries
• Where did my tax go?
• UK Climate projections
Real time travel and transport
What needs to happen next
• Getting data out of the geek ghettos to enable people to
• interrogate it
• play with it
• interact with it
Carbon Footprint Calculator
What can we all learn from this?
• Data does not have to be boring
• How you can bring alive information for your clients?
• How you can get feedback and ideas with interactive tools?
• How can you collaborate or facilitate ideas that people find interesting in the online space?
Presentation at:http://community.stimulationltd.co.uk/
Tiffany St James
@tiffanystjames
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