Infographics
This is a WIP for the RUD project
Really Useful Data project
"Really useful data, designed and engineered right."
to confirm branding
Key questions
- What data sets/ sources do you consider really useful? Why?
- What specific visualisations/ types of visualisation do you think would help?
- Partner organisations seeking/ using same info?
Data formats
to do
See also Web 3.0
Data
Open Data
See also Open
"in 2009 and 9 the American Government launched data.gov - 'a comprehensive catalogue of data provided by federalo agencies and represents transparency and accountability in groups and officials... how the government spends tax dollars' - (YAU 2011)
Data.gov.uk - Opening up Government More than 9000 data sets
"As of April 2010 the following UK Government departments and agencies have provided data sets to data.gov.uk:BusinessLink, the Cabinet Office, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Department for Children, Schools and Families, the Department for Communities and Local Government, theDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for International Development, the Department for Transport, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department of Energy and Climate Change, theDepartment of Health, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Home Office, Her Majesty's Treasury, Lichfield District Council, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Justice, the Northern Ireland Office, theOrdnance Survey, and the Society of Information Technology Management.
"All data included in data.gov.uk is covered either by Crown Copyright, the Crown Database Right or have been licensed to the Crown. In turn, all data available on data.gov.uk is available under a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive license which permits use of the data under the following conditions: the copyright and the source of the data should be acknowledged by including an attribution statement specified by data.gov.uk, which is 'name of data provider' data © Crown copyright and database right. the inclusion of the same acknowledgement is required in sub-licensing of the data, and further sub-licenses should require the same. The data should not be used in a way that suggests that the data provider endorses the use of the data. And the data or its source should not be misrepresented"
Datasets
UK Government
Scottish Government
- A Digital Ambition for Scotland - October 22 2010
- Scotland's Digital Future: A Strategy for Scotland - Strategy setting out how the Scottish Government will ensure Scotland takes full advantage of digital technology.
"Action 2.4 We will develop proposals with partners for releasing more government information and data for use by the public. Initial proposals to be developed and implementation to begin by end of July 2011. We invite suggestions for areas where the greater availability of public data could lead to new services or innovative applications " - March 3 2011
- http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/sustainabilityperformance/Data
- http://cofog01.data.scotland.gov.uk/ - linked data
- Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation - Data Sources and Suitability
Commercial
- http://www.whoownsscotland.org.uk/ - has to cover land registry cost?
Crowdsourced
Consultancy
Visualisation
Media that represents data and other knowledge to help provice a mental context and scale
See also Organisation#Knowledge
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_visualization
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_visualization
Learning
Journalism
People
- http://simonrogers.net/ - Data journalism and other curiosities