Reflections

Complexity and complementarity – why more raw material alone won’t neccessarily bring open data driven growth

By Tim Davies on October 28, 2012

[Summary: reflections on an open data hack day, complexity, and complements to open data for economic and social impact] “Data is the raw material of the 21st Century”. It’s a claim that has been made in various forms by former US CIO Vivek Kundra (PDF), by large consultancies and tech commentators, and that is regularly [...]

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Does removing the wrangling undermine understanding

By Tim Davies on April 7, 2011

The Guardian Data Blog have shared details today of their ‘workflow’ for cleaning and preparing data and then generating graphics and visualisations. The headline figures about the balance of effort involved (70% of time spent preparing data; just 30% visualising and presenting it) might seem to point towards continued problems with open data being non-standard [...]

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