Details: Open Data for Campaigning. What can you do with it? How do you open your data? How do I tell my boss? What would you like to see? The session included presentations from Tim Davies and Rolf Kleef. Open data campaigning camp – introduction and history View more presentations from Tim Davies. On Twitter… Go to this session\’s post
Oxford, 21 - 22 March 2012
Open Data for campaigning
Details: Open Data for Campaigning. What can you do with it? How do you open your data? How do I tell my boss? What would you like to see?
The session included presentations from Tim Davies and Rolf Kleef.
On Twitter please use #ecf2011 and the session-specific tag: #31
Session convener: Tim Davies
Some points I’ve taken away from this session:
* Standardising data is important, using unique references (eg company registration numbers etc) to compensate for variables/human error in non-standard elements (eg company name)
* The Guardian’s UK expenses project (http://mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk/) had high traffic and involvement while it was a big news story, but that has tailed off to nearly zero. Galaxy Zoo (http://www.galaxyzoo.org) has been more of a slow burn, building involvement and (significantly) a vibrant community.
* Fun, game-like ways of analysing data can work eg Old Weather (www.oldweather.org) with a ‘ship’s crew’ or how Google Images created a game around adding descriptive tags to images.
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