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
