Tag: opendata
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Open Data is Important For Cities
Ben Wellington gives an excellent Ted Talk on open data. He argues that cities need to make more of an effort to release data in a standardized and machine-readable format. This could help cities be safer and fiscally responsible. He is hoping New York City sets the standards for open data for cities. As a…
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Open Data Day 2015
Today, February 21, 2015 is Open Data Day. What is it? Around the globe, cities are hosting hackathons centered around open data. The rules are fairly open-ended as long as the event is open and uses open data. Who is it for? Designers Developers Statisticians Librarians Citizens If you want to get involved, check the…
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Data Sources for Cool Data Science Projects: Part 2 – Guest Post
I am excited for the first ever guest posts on the Data Science 101 blog. Dr. Michael Li, Executive Director of The Data Incubator in New York City, is providing 2 great posts (see Part 1) about finding data for your next data science project. At The Data Incubator, we run a free six week…
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Data Sources for Cool Data Science Projects: Part 1 – Guest Post
I am excited for the first ever guest posts on the Data Science 101 blog. Dr. Michael Li, Executive Director of The Data Incubator in New York City, is providing 2 great posts (see Part 2) about finding data for your next data science project. At The Data Incubator, we run a free six week…
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List of Over 200 Data Science College Programs
My previous list of Colleges with Data Science Degrees has grown very large, and numerous people have requested the ability to sort and/or filter. Thus, I built a new list. It is available at: Data Science Colleges. As far as I know, this is the most comprehensive list of data science programs available. Here are…
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Stanford Releases Large Network Datasets
Stanford University has just released a collection of large datasets of network data. When I say network data, I am referring to the mathematical term of networks (think of a collection of nodes and edges). Here are just a few of the possible categories. Citation Networks Road Networks Web graphs Social Networks such as twitter…
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An Organization for Opendata and Healthcare
Health Data Consortium is an advocacy group focused on helping the healthcare industry respond to the availability of health data. They are currently focused on innovation and the uses of open health data. Healthcare is currently undergoing some radical changes and data science is going to play a key role in the future of healthcare.…
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Twitter Open Data Grants
Twitter has just released the idea of a Data Grant. You have to login with your twitter account to see the details. The gist is: Twitter will provide you with historical twitter data for research purposes. What could you do with this data?
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US Government Open Data Initiative
The United States White House has developed Project Open Data to encourage government agencies to share and produce opendata. According the Project: The White House developed Project Open Data – this collection of code, tools, and case studies – to help agencies adopt the Open Data Policy and unlock the potential of government data. Here…
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Open Data Action Plan for France
This information goes along with the post last week, Open Data Could Be Worth $5.4 Trillion Annually. Just last week France released an action plan for open data. Honestly, I have not read the full report, but it is great to see a government create such a plan. See the full report below.
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Open Data Could Be Worth $5.4 Trillion Annually
Michael Chui of McKinsey Global Institute provided some clear insights about the benefits of opendata. Here are the 4 characteristics of open data provided by Chui: Access by Everyone Formatted for Easy Reading by a Computer Free(no cost) Unlimited Rights to redistribute and reuse Also, Chui describes how an organization can get the most from…
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Dryad: Scientific Data Repository
Earlier, I posted about Scientific Data, but unfortunately the site does not host any of the data. Enter Dryad, data hosting is exactly what the site does. The site hosts opendata and any other digital artifacts associated with a research project. Plus the site provides a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for citing the the artifacts…