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HDI Forum III: The Health Datapalooza promises to bring together a diverse group of data experts, technology developers, entrepreneurs, policy makers, health care system leaders, CIOs, CTOs, and community advocates to support innovative applications of health and health care data. The Health Data Initiative (HDI), originally launched in 2010 by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as the Community Health Data Initiative, is a public-private collaboration that encourages innovators to utilize health data to develop applications to raise awareness of health and health system performance and spark community action to improve health. The Forum will feature keynote addresses, an Apps Expo, demonstrations of new, cutting-edge apps, and thought-provoking panel discussions. There will also be plenty of time for networking and one-on-one interaction. It is a great opportunity to be in on the vanguard of data applications to improve health and health care. This year's event promises to be one you do not want to miss!

interesting case of data-intensive policy-making

BudgIT is creative start-up driven to retell the Nigerian budget and public data  in a finer detail across every literacy span.  We aim to stimulate citizens interests around public data and hence trigger  discussions towards better governance. We are committed to principles of open data & governance, citizen participation and data transparency. 

Disappointed: the UK Govt discovers publishing open data does not create overnight a data literate society. 

TITLE: SocialSYNC Launched by Syncapse and developed by Crimson Hexagon REFERENCE PEOPLE/ORGANISATION: LOCATION:US IMPLEMENTATION LEVEL:Deployed DESCRIPTION:SocialSYNC provides a powerful framework that pulls brands' unstructured social marketing data and content from third-party platforms and social media sites, and stores it in one managed, hosted and secure datacenter. This addition to the Syncapse Platform is designed to eliminate the data fragmentation that currently exists for brands as they ingest massive amounts of big data and content driven by disparate social applications. SocialSYNC allows global brands to compare campaign results from multiple channels side-by-side, and more accurately and effectively build a social data strategy linked to internal and external IT systems.

Report on the first Corssover Project workshop: "Report on Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism" (aka PMOD)

"The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open source reference book for anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism." Includes sections on visualization, sourcing and analysis of large data sets, and various public policy related case studies.

Six Rules That Should Govern Your Big Data Existence. Here are some rules from my experience in the small data world that I've come to believe also apply to the big data world, perhaps even more so. As you go about your big data journey you'll meet with even more immense success if you consider these valuable life lessons:

The Open Data Platform Junar provides a cloud-based platform for opening data to drive innovation, collaboration, and to meet legislative goals."

FIve stars of open data engagement

Enipedia is an active exploration into the applications of wikis and the semantic web for energy and industry issues. Through this we seek to create a collaborative environment for discussion, while also providing the tools that allow for data from different sources to be connected, queried, and visualized from different perspectives.

Not a game. But recommended because of its originality and eclectic combination.

Have you ever wanted a mobile app that ties your location to crime statistics, government environmental and health data, and weather and solar flare data to calculate the hourly probability of a zombie apocalypse?

How many pedestrians are present in the city? How do the behave over time? Good policy modeling requires accurate data.

Aggregation of as many city-related time-varying data sources as currently possible.

After Masters of Networks, UNDP and INRIA work out a network analysis of World Bank contractors.

Summary visualization of various open, demograpic data sets about the inhabitants of Rennes Métropolis.

A Big Data road map for government. Produced by TechAmerica Foundation, a nonprofit arm of what seems to be trade association of the high tech industry. The leadership of the commission is firmly in the hands of large companies: IBM, SAP, Amazon.

A growing directory of Linked Data people and resources, created and maintained by 3roundstones on behalf of the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group

Topics of this book include principles, uses for transparency and civic engagement, a brief legal history, data quality, civic hacking, and paradoxes in transparency.