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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

"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

Commercial

Crowdsourced

Consultancy

Visualisation

Media that represents data and other knowledge to help provice a mental context and scale

See also Organisation#Knowledge

Learning

Journalism

People

Gap Minder

Google