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Mapping Sheets Another favorite Google add-on of mine is definitely Sheets. With this can make better any geographical data may have in your spreadsheet. If you've ever wanted an easy way quickly plot locations from onto a it. drive addons8 5 Add ons You

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  • Tom Johnson on 12 Jul 14
     
    Mapping Sheets Another favorite Google Drive add-on of mine is definitely Mapping Sheets. With this add-on, you can make better use of any geographical data you may have in your spreadsheet. If you've ever wanted an easy way to quickly plot locations from your data onto a Google Map, this is it. drive addons8   5 Google Drive Add ons You Need To Use Using it is ridiculously easy. Just make sure you've got a list of addresses and other related data in your sheet, and then trigger this add-on. You'll see a form where you tell it what columns in your sheet to use for creating the map. drive addons9   5 Google Drive Add ons You Need To Use Once you submit it, the add-on creates the map right in the sheet for you so that you have a useful visualization of all of that data.
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National Science Foundation Helps Fund scrible, A New Web Annotation Tool/Per... - 0 views

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  • INFOdocket Information Industry News + New Web Sites and Tools From Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy National Science Foundation Helps Fund scrible, A New Web Annotation Tool/Personal Web Cache + Video Demo Posted on May 12, 2011 by Gary D. Price scrible (pronounced scribble) launched about a week ago and you can learn more (free to register and use) here. The company has received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. From Venture Beat: The company lets users do three things: Save articles and pages so they’re available if the original goes offline; richly annotate online content using tools reminiscent of Word (highlighter, sticky note, etc.), and share annotated pages privately with others. scrible is free and will continue to be free to all users (125MB of storage space). A premium edition is also planned but features (aside from a larger storage quota) have not been announced. Robert Scoble has posted a video demo of scrible with the CEO of of the company, Victor Karkar, doing the “driving.” scrible sounds a lot like Diigo without the mobile access options. It also sounds similar (minus the markup features) to Pinboard. Pinboard does charge $9.97 for a lifetime membership with almost all features (there are many with new ones are debut regularly). For an extra $25/year all of the material you’ve bookmarked is cached by Pinboard. Cached pages look great INCLUDING PDF files. Pinboard is extremely fast and has a very low learning curve. Think Delicious and then add a ton of useful tools to it. Pinboard also provides mobile access to your saved bookmarks and cached documents. Finally, when used responsibly (aka abused) there are no storage space quotas. Which service do you prefer or does each service have a niche depending on the work you’re doing? What other tools to you use? Hat Tips and Thanks: @NspireD2 and @New Media Consortium Share this: Share Share Tagged: Annotation Tools, Diigo, Pinboard, scrible Posted in: Personal Archiving, Web To
  • INFOdocket Information Industry News + New Web Sites and Tools From Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy National Science Foundation Helps Fund scrible, A New Web Annotation Tool/Personal Web Cache + Video Demo Posted on May 12, 2011 by Gary D. Price scrible (pronounced scribble) launched about a week ago and you can learn more (free to register and use) here. The company has received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. From Venture Beat: The company lets users do three things: Save articles and pages so they’re available if the original goes offline; richly annotate online content using tools reminiscent of Word (highlighter, sticky note, etc.), and share annotated pages privately with others. scrible is free and will continue to be free to all users (125MB of storage space). A premium edition is also planned but features (aside from a larger storage quota) have not been announced. Robert Scoble has posted a video demo of scrible with the CEO of of the company, Victor Karkar, doing the “driving.” scrible sounds a lot like Diigo without the mobile access options. It also sounds similar (minus the markup features) to Pinboard. Pinboard does charge $9.97 for a lifetime membership with almost all features (there are many with new ones are debut regularly). For an extra $25/year all of the material you’ve bookmarked is cached by Pinboard. Cached pages look great INCLUDING PDF files. Pinboard is extremely fast and has a very low learning curve. Think Delicious and then add a ton of useful tools to it. Pinboard also provides mobile access to your saved bookmarks and cached documents. Finally, when used responsibly (aka abused) there are no storage space quotas. Which service do you prefer or does each service have a niche depending on the work you’re doing? What other tools to you use? Hat Tips and Thanks: @NspireD2 and @New Media Consortium Share this: Share Share Tagged: Annotation Tools, Diigo, Pinboard, scrible Posted in: Personal Archiving, Web Tools
  • Tom Johnson on 12 May 11
     
    " INFOdocket Information Industry News + New Web Sites and Tools From Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy National Science Foundation Helps Fund scrible, A New Web Annotation Tool/Personal Web Cache + Video Demo Posted on May 12, 2011 by Gary D. Price scrible (pronounced scribble) launched about a week ago and you can learn more (free to register and use) here. The company has received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. From Venture Beat: The company lets users do three things: Save articles and pages so they're available if the original goes offline; richly annotate online content using tools reminiscent of Word (highlighter, sticky note, etc.), and share annotated pages privately with others. scrible is free and will continue to be free to all users (125MB of storage space). A premium edition is also planned but features (aside from a larger storage quota) have not been announced. Robert Scoble has posted a video demo of scrible with the CEO of of the company, Victor Karkar, doing the "driving." scrible sounds a lot like Diigo without the mobile access options. It also sounds similar (minus the markup features) to Pinboard. Pinboard does charge $9.97 for a lifetime membership with almost all features (there are many with new ones are debut regularly). For an extra $25/year all of the material you've bookmarked is cached by Pinboard. Cached pages look great INCLUDING PDF files. Pinboard is extremely fast and has a very low learning curve. Think Delicious and then add a ton of useful tools to it. Pinboard also provides mobile access to your saved bookmarks and cached documents. Finally, when used responsibly (aka abused) there are no storage space quotas. Which service do you prefer or does each service have a niche depending on the work you're doing? What other tools to you use? Hat Tips and Thanks: @NspireD2 and @New Media Consortium Share this: Share Tagged: Annotation Tools, Diigo, Pinboard, scrible Posted in: P
Tom Johnson

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  • Download Download your Esri Maps for Office. Esri Maps for Office requires Office 2010 or later. Esri Maps for Office Add-In (x86) 32-bit (70MB) Esri Maps for Office Add-In (x64) 64-bit (70MB) Download the version of Esri Maps for Office that matches the bit version of Microsoft Office 2010 you have installed, not the version of your operating system (OS). If you are not sure, open Excel (or other Office application), click the File tab, and select Help. In the About Microsoft Excel section on the right, the version information states whether the Microsoft Office 2010 installation is 32-bit or 64-bit. Once your download is complete, open Excel.
  • Tom Johnson on 01 Aug 12
     
    Download Download your Esri Maps for Office. Esri Maps for Office requires Office 2010 or later. Esri Maps for Office Add-In (x86) 32-bit (70MB) Esri Maps for Office Add-In (x64) 64-bit (70MB) Download the version of Esri Maps for Office that matches the bit version of Microsoft Office 2010 you have installed, not the version of your operating system (OS). If you are not sure, open Excel (or other Office application), click the File tab, and select Help. In the About Microsoft Excel section on the right, the version information states whether the Microsoft Office 2010 installation is 32-bit or 64-bit. Once your download is complete, open Excel.
  • Tom Johnson on 01 Aug 12
     
    This looks to be a very valuable tool.
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Public sector needs to improve quality of information, warns Eurim | Guardian Governmen... - 0 views

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  • Public sector needs to improve quality of information, warns Eurim Parliamentary group gives cautious welcome to the EU's plans to open up more public sector data reddit this omnitracker.omniTrackEVarEvent( 12, 16, 'Guardian Government Computing: Reddit', 'click', '.reddit a' ); Comments (0) Sade Laja Guardian Professional, Monday 19 December 2011 07.08 EST Article history Sharing data on public services could have serious consequences unless the material has been valued, maintained and protected and the original reasons for its collection have been taken into account, the Information Society Alliance (Eurim), has warned. In a report on the quality of public sector information, the group says that the drive to put central and local government data online, open to public scrutiny, has revealed the long standing problems with quality that lie behind the reluctance of some departments and agencies to trust one another's data. It adds that it is important that decisions on spending cuts are based on good quality information.
  • Tom Johnson on 20 Dec 11
     
    Sharing data on public services could have serious consequences unless the material has been valued, maintained and protected and the original reasons for its collection have been taken into account, the Information Society Alliance (Eurim), has warned. In a report on the quality of public sector information, the group says that the drive to put central and local government data online, open to public scrutiny, has revealed the long standing problems with quality that lie behind the reluctance of some departments and agencies to trust one another's data. It adds that it is important that decisions on spending cuts are based on good quality information.
  • Tom Johnson on 20 Dec 11
     
    An important article. Please read.
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ELAN description | The Language Archive - 0 views

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  • ELAN description ELAN is a professional tool for the creation of complex annotations on video and audio resources. With ELAN a user can add an unlimited number of annotations to audio and/or video streams. An annotation can be a sentence, word or gloss, a comment, translation or a description of any feature observed in the media. Annotations can be created on multiple layers, called tiers. Tiers can be hierarchically interconnected. An annotation can either be time-aligned to the media or it can refer to other existing annotations. The textual content of annotations is always in Unicode and the transcription is stored in an XML format. ELAN provides several different views on the annotations, each view is connected and synchronized to the media playhead. Up to 4 video files can be associated with an annotation document. Each video can be integrated in the main document window or displayed in its own resizable window. ELAN delegates media playback to an existing media framework, like Windows Media Player, QuickTime or JMF (Java Media Framework). As a result a wide variety of audio and video formats is supported and high performance media playback can be achieved. ELAN is written in the Java programming language and the sources are available for non-commercial use. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
  • Tom Johnson on 02 Nov 12
     
    ELAN description ELAN is a professional tool for the creation of complex annotations on video and audio resources. With ELAN a user can add an unlimited number of annotations to audio and/or video streams. An annotation can be a sentence, word or gloss, a comment, translation or a description of any feature observed in the media. Annotations can be created on multiple layers, called tiers. Tiers can be hierarchically interconnected. An annotation can either be time-aligned to the media or it can refer to other existing annotations. The textual content of annotations is always in Unicode and the transcription is stored in an XML format. ELAN provides several different views on the annotations, each view is connected and synchronized to the media playhead. Up to 4 video files can be associated with an annotation document. Each video can be integrated in the main document window or displayed in its own resizable window. ELAN delegates media playback to an existing media framework, like Windows Media Player, QuickTime or JMF (Java Media Framework). As a result a wide variety of audio and video formats is supported and high performance media playback can be achieved. ELAN is written in the Java programming language and the sources are available for non-commercial use. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
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Constructing the Open Data Landscape | ScraperWiki Data Blog - 0 views

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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.
  • Tom Johnson on 09 Sep 11
     
    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.
Tom Johnson

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  • Tom Johnson on 13 May 11
     
    Tom Torok (NYT) writes: After years of looking down my nose at Excel because of its limitations, I have to say that I'm very impressed with Excel 2010 when used with a free Microsoft add-in called PowerPivot. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/download-powerpivot-HA101959985.aspx In a PowerPivot tutorial (link below), I imported eight tables  from several sources and joined them - yes, you can join relational data. It uses some magical data compression that allows for lightning fast sorts, filters and calculated fields. The largest table in the tutorial has about 2 million rows. A calculated field on that table took seconds. A did a pivot table on the table and the answers appeared as soon as I selected the fields. In one of  the training videos (http://www.powerpivot.com/) an MS guy works with a 101 million-record table on his laptop. It's really amazing. http://powerpivotsdr.codeplex.com/ If you install, be sure to read the prerequisites or you'll be installing and uninstalling both PowerPivot and Excel. I'm running it on a 32-bit XP machine (it won't run on a 64-bit XP but will work on Windows 7 64-bit). The tutorial is for a Windows 7 setup, but there are items in the menu bar that match the reference to the tutorial's ribbon. I noticed that if I call up an xlsx by double clicking on a file in Windows Explorer that PowerPivot is not enabled in the ribbon. If you call up a file from within Excel 2010 everything works as advertised.Regards, TT  
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SpeakerText | Transcription, Captions, Interactive Transcripts - 0 views

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  • How It Works SpeakerText combines artificial and human intelligence to offer low-cost, high-quality video transcription. Sign up for an account Import your video library (we currently support Ooyala, Brightcove, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Wistia and Blip.tv), or add your videos one-by-one. Choose which videos you want to transcribe. Check out and pay. SpeakerText sends you an email when your transcripts are finished. Download your transcripts as text or XML files from SpeakerText OR install CaptionBox and download your transcripts as HTML code to place on your website. We guarantee that your transcripts will get back to you in less than 72 hours and be of the highest quality. Give it a try now!
  • Tom Johnson on 24 Sep 11
     
    How It Works SpeakerText combines artificial and human intelligence to offer low-cost, high-quality video transcription. Sign up for an account Import your video library (we currently support Ooyala, Brightcove, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Wistia and Blip.tv), or add your videos one-by-one. Choose which videos you want to transcribe. Check out and pay. SpeakerText sends you an email when your transcripts are finished. Download your transcripts as text or XML files from SpeakerText OR install CaptionBox and download your transcripts as HTML code to place on your website. Guarantee We guarantee that your transcripts will get back to you in less than 72 hours and be of the highest quality. Give it a try now! http://speakertext.com
  • Tom Johnson on 24 Sep 11
     
    This is the first I've heard of a tool like this doing a creditable job. I suspect there is some machine transcription going on, but then the first pass is sent to India or Jamaica to be polished. Here's an example of how the NYTimes used this tool: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/20/us/politics/20090120_INAUGURAL_ANALYSIS.html
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Part 2 of the Open Data, Open Society report is now available online | Stop - 0 views

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  • Part 2 of the Open Data, Open Society report is now available online Posted on September 1, 2011 by marco Open Data, Open Society is a research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations by for the Laboratory of Economics and Management of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa. The first report of the project, released in October 2010 under a Creative Commons cc-by license, can be downloaded from the website of the DIME project (PDF) or read online as one HTML file on the Sant’Anna School website (*). The conclusions of the project, a shorter report titled “Open Data: Emerging trends, issues and best practices” and finished in June 2011, are now available online under the same license at the following locations: single HTML file PDF format, Sant’Anna school PDF format, DIME website Another part of the project, the Open Data, Open Society survey has been extended until the end of 2011. Thank you in advance for announcing the survey to all the city and regional administrations of EU-15 and, if you want, to add further translations of its introduction!
  • Tom Johnson on 01 Sep 11
     
    Part 2 of the Open Data, Open Society report is now available online Posted on September 1, 2011 by marco Open Data, Open Society is a research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations by for the Laboratory of Economics and Management of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa. The first report of the project, released in October 2010 under a Creative Commons cc-by license, can be downloaded from the website of the DIME project (PDF) or read online as one HTML file on the Sant'Anna School website (*). The conclusions of the project, a shorter report titled "Open Data: Emerging trends, issues and best practices" and finished in June 2011, are now available online under the same license at the following locations: single HTML file PDF format, Sant'Anna school PDF format, DIME website Another part of the project, the Open Data, Open Society survey has been extended until the end of 2011. Thank you in advance for announcing the survey to all the city and regional administrations of EU-15 and, if you want, to add further translations of its introduction!
Tom Johnson

Interactive charts add heft to your data stories - Online News Association - 0 views

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  • Tom Johnson on 17 Feb 12
     
    Interactive charts add heft to your data stories Posted Feb. 16 - 10 a.m. in MJ Bear Fellows, Resources by Lucas Timmons Filed under data Data journalism can be very compelling. Stitched with a good narrative, it can tell one amazing story. But we can do better than that. We can also visualize the data and provide a great package. With that in mind, here are three free options for creating animated and interactive charts.
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Redliner - Solve the Frustrations of Document Collaboration and Approval - 0 views

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  • Tom Johnson on 04 Aug 11
     
    Redliner, a recent addition to the SaaS field, takes the concept one step further. A "next generation" online collaboration tool, Redliner goes beyond establishing a shared work space "in the cloud"-where individuals can access, edit and comment on documents-and adds innovative workflow features that actually get important documents completed faster. Surpassing the capabilities of current online word processors, such as Google™ Docs, Zoho® Writer and Adobe® Buzzword®, Redliner abolishes the grunt work inherent in the document collaboration process. When several individuals are working on a single document and accessing various versions, how many times do they find themselves asking, "What has changed?", "Is this the latest version?" or "What do I need to respond to?"
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Searchable Map Template with Google Fusion Tables - 0 views

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  • Tom Johnson on 16 Aug 12
     
    Searchable Map Template with Google Fusion Tables Turn a spreadsheet in to a searchable map You want to put your data on a searchable, filterable map. This is a free, open source tool to help you do it. Features clean, full screen layout new mobile and tablet friendly using responsive design address search (with variable radius) geolocation (find me!) new RESTful URLs for sharing searches results count (using Google's Fusion Tables API) ability to easily add additional search filters (checkboxes, sliders, etc) all done with HTML, CSS and Javascript - no server side code required Technologies used Google Fusion Tables (useful resources) Google Maps API V3 jQuery jQuery Address Twitter Bootstrap Note: This template is now supports the Fusion Tables v1 API. For more info on this, see their migration guide
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  • FusionTablesLayer Builder This wizard helps you create the HTML for a map with a FusionTablesLayer and search element (either text-based search or select menu). After creating your map, you can copy and paste the HTML code in the textarea below to display the map on your own website! Please submit bug reports here: Issue Tracker
  • Tom Johnson on 24 Sep 11
     
    FusionTablesLayer Builder This wizard helps you create the HTML for a map with a FusionTablesLayer and search element (either text-based search or select menu). After creating your map, you can copy and paste the HTML code in the textarea below to display the map on your own website! Please submit bug reports here: Issue Tracker
  • Tom Johnson on 24 Sep 11
     
    Click on the "Add another feature" drop-down to add additional layer or search box
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Corporate Accountability Data in Influence Explorer - Sunlight Labs: Blog - 0 views

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  • Tom Johnson on 05 Oct 11
     
    Again, US-centric, but this might generate some ideas of what could be accomplish in your city/nation. Late yesterday we announced a bunch of new features for Influence Explorer: http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2011/ie-corporate-accountability/ As the blog post explains, you can now find information about a corporation's EPA violations, federal advisory committee memberships, and participation in the rulemaking process -- all in one place. I wanted to highlight that last feature a bit more, though. To my knowledge, this is the first time that the full corpus of public comments submitted to regulations.gov has been available for bulk download and analysis. This isn't a coincidence: regulations.gov is built using technologies that make scraping it unusually difficult. This is unfortunate, since everyone seems to agree that federal rulemakings are gaining in importance -- both because of congressional gridlock that leaves the regulatory process as a second-best option, and because of calls to simplify the regulatory landscape as a pro-growth measure. It's an area where influence is certainly exerted -- rulemakers are obliged to review every comment -- but little attention is paid to who's flooding dockets with comments, and which directions rules are being pushed. It's taken us several months to develop a reliable solution and to obtain past rulemakings, but we now have the data in hand. We plan to do much more with this dataset, and we're hoping that others will want to dig in, too. You can find a link to the bulk download options in the post above -- the full compressed archive of extracted text and metadata is ~16GB, but we've provided options for grabbing individual agencies' or dockets' data. If anyone wants the original documents (PDFs, DOCs, etc) we can talk through how to make that happen, but as they clock in at 1.5TB we'll want to make sure folks know what they're getting into before we spend the time and bandwidth. Finally, note that we currently o
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