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Constructing the Open Data Landscape Posted on September 7, 2011 by Nicola Hughes In an article in today's Telegraph regarding Francis Maude's Public Data Corporation, Michael Cross asks: "What makes the state think it can be at the cutting edge of the knowledge economy". He writes in terms of market and business share, giving the example of the satnav market worth over $100bn a year yet it's based on free data from the US Government's GPS system. He credits the internet revolution for transforming public sector data into 'cashable proposition'. We, along with many other start-ups, foundations and civic coding groups, are part of this 'geeky world' of Open Data. So we'd like to add our piece concerning the Open Data movement. Michael has the right to ask this question because there is this constant custodial battle being fought every day, every scrape and every script on the web for the rights to data. So let me tell you about the geeks' take on Open Data.

The all-in-one software for Content Analysis and Text Mining Hello We are pleased to announce the release of T-LAB 8.0. This version represents a major change in the usability and the effectiveness of our software for text analysis. The most significant improvements concern the integration of bottom-up (i.e. unsupervised) methods for exploratory text analysis with top-down (i.e. supervised) approaches for the automated classification of textual units like words, sentences, paragraphs and documents. Among other things, this means that - besides discovering emerging patterns of words and themes from texts - the users can now easily build, apply and validate their models (e.g. dictionaries of categories or pre-existing manual categorizations) both for classical content analysis and for sentiment analysis. For this purpose several T-LAB functionalities have been expanded and a new ergonomic and powerful tool named 'Dictionary-Based Classification' has been added. No specific dictionaries have been built in; however, with some minor re-formatting, lots of resources available over the Internet and customized word lists can be quickly imported. Last but not least, in order to meet the needs of many customers, temporary licenses of the software are now on sale; moreover, without any time limit, the trial mode of the software now allows you to analyse your own texts up to 20 kb in txt format, each of which can include up to 20 short documents. To learn more, use the following link http://www.tlab.it/en/80news.php The Demo, the User's Manual and the Quick Introduction are available at http://www.tlab.it/en/download.php Kind Regards The T-LAB Team web: http://www.tlab.it/ e-mail: info@tlab.it

When you go to a conference, there are typically several talks going on at the same time, and you can always tell there's a popular paper coming up when you see people leave a bunch of rooms at once and head straight into one. There's also the unfortunate case when someone speaks, and there's only a handful of people in the room, all in the back staring at their laptops. Open Data City visualized this activity during the German internet conference re: publica. Open Data City used MAC addresses and access point connections to keep track of where devices went. So a person might be in a room connected to the nearest access point, disconnects as he leaves, and then reconnects as he reenters another room, which provides the flow. It's fun to watch the conference play out even if you didn't attend. Each dot represents an attendee, and as the animation plays the dots migrate from room to room. Click and drag over the dots to select specific people. [Thanks, Michael]

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Google - based app put together by the guys at the Chi Trib. presented at the hackaton in Santiago, Chile