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Tom Johnson

Constructing the Open Data Landscape | ScraperWiki Data Blog - 0 views

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analytic journalism data open data Open Government

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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

Investigative Resources for Investigative Reporters with TLOxp® - 0 views

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online investigative public records

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  • Tom Johnson on 18 Dec 12
     
    TLOxp® for Investigative Reporters is a cutting-edge online investigative database, giving reporters access to the most accurate, comprehensive information on people, businesses and locations and the connections between them.
Tom Johnson

cohuman collaboration tool - 0 views

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Collaboration tool Teams webtools

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  • Tom Johnson on 16 Dec 11
     
    Who uses Cohuman? Teams Leads Members Teams Cohuman is ideal for any group of people that needs to communicate more dynamically and effectively than email or traditional collaboration tools will allow. Startups, Distributed Teams, Small Businesses, Deal Teams, Departments in larger organizations... in short Cohuman is for any group that requires a solution designed to coordinate people and manage projects more intelligently. Clear Task Ownership Assigning and tracking tasks is unambigious. Each team member has their personal responsibilities defined. Transparent Communication Everyone on the team knows exactly who is doing what - without extra effort. Intelligent Prioritization Every Task is ranked by Cohuman from the team's inputs in order of priority for people and projects so the important Tasks get done first. Dynamic Updates If a Task priority changes, the information is shared automatically with each team member - no Status update meetings or emails required. Powerful Email Integration Cohuman works for everyone on your team. Even those without a Cohuman account can interact with Cohuman via their email.
Tom Johnson

Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis - - 0 views

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visualization analysis data taxonomy

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  • Tom Johnson on 06 Mar 12
     
    A taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations Jeffrey Heer, Stanford University Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, College Park The increasing scale and availability of digital data provides an extraordinary resource for informing public policy, scientific discovery, business strategy, and even our personal lives. To get the most out of such data, however, users must be able to make sense of it: to pursue questions, uncover patterns of interest, and identify (and potentially correct) errors. In concert with data-management systems and statistical algorithms, analysis requires contextualized human judgments regarding the domain-specific significance of the clusters, trends, and outliers discovered in data.
Tom Johnson

Free planning tool - download now for free! - PlanningForce has been chosing by a huge ... - 0 views

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT GANTT planning tools web

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  • Tom Johnson on 27 May 11
     
    Express Planner http://www.planningforce-express.com/ Those persons with a yen for project management will want to take a look at Planning Force's Express Planner. The program is designed for those doing work in project management and business, and it gives users the ability to apply calendars to projects and tasks, prioritize items, and create reports. The site includes several tutorials, and it is compatible with computers running Linux and Windows 2000 and newer. [KMG]
Tom Johnson

Visualization contests around the corner - 0 views

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analytic journalism visualization contests

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  • Tom Johnson on 26 May 11
     
    Visualization contests around the corner May 25, 2011 to Contests | Comments (3) The best way to learn how to visualize data is to grab a dataset and see what you can do with it. You can read as many tips and tricks as you want, but you're not going to get any better until you actually try. Contests are a fun way to do this. Participate So here are a handful of visualization contests to get your hands dirty. Hey you might even win a couple of thousand dollars. Not that money matters to you, because as well all know, learning is your reward. Hacking Education - A contest for developers and data crunchers. DonorsChoose.org has inspired $80 million in giving from 400,000 donors, helping 165,000 teachers at 43,000 schools, and the donation site has opened up this data. Can do you do something with it? Deadline: June 30, 2011. Data In Sight - A hands-on competition in San Francisco's SoMa district with surprise data sources. Some talks, lunch, dinner, and a 24-hour hackathon. Event date: June 24, 2011 (better to register your team early). Tableau Interactive Viz Contest - This one is coming up the quickest, but is the most straightforward. Plus, you get a t-shirt just for entering. Grab some business, finance, or real estate data and go to town with Tableau Public. Deadline: June 3, 2011.
Tom Johnson

Javascript used to display Business Database Search from The Dallas Morning News - 0 views

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analytic journalism DJCamp2011 database business javascript

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  • Tom Johnson on 15 May 11
     
    Daniel Lathrop Wanted to share with all of you my latest installment in my ongoing love affair with Google Fusion Tables, the Dallas publicly-traded companies list. http://newsapps.dallasnews.com/media/dfw-public-companies.html I got the data from the biz desk on Thursday and wrote this little thing using JQuery, JQueryUI and FusionTables pretty quickly. And before everyone gets all "but you could have used [Caspio, TableSetter, Rails, PHP, Ilene, etc.]" on me, I know I could have. But doing this with Fusion Tables let me do all my work on the client side and let me create the user-experience I wanted. Plus, I now have a starting place to do this for any similar Fusion Tables project. For the curious, the Javascript can be found here: http://newsapps.dallasnews.com/media/fusiondmn.pubcompanies.js It's fewer than 150 lines, and more than a quarter of that is my Javascript for for rendering integer/floating point #s in newsroom style (e.g. $4.2 billion). I'm hoping to turn it into a robust tool for deploying searchable data with Fusion Tables and am going to ask my corporate overlords to let me open source it once I've done some refactoring to make it generally applicable. Critiques welcome. -Daniel --------------------------- Daniel Lathrop 206.718.0349 (cell)
Tom Johnson

Eurostat - 0 views

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opensource european statistics eurostat international government data

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  • Tom Johnson on 25 Oct 11
     
    Eurostat was established in 1953 to meet the requirements of the Coal and Steel Community. Over the years its task has broadened and when the European Community was founded in 1958 it became a Directorate-General (DG) of the European Commission. Eurostat's key role is to supply statistics to other DGs and supply the Commission and other European Institutions with data so they can define, implement and analyse Community policies. The result: Eurostat offers a whole range of important and interesting data that governments, businesses, the education sector, journalists and the public can use for their work and daily life. With the development of Community policies, Eurostat's role has changed. Today, collecting data for EMU and developing statistical systems in candidate countries for EU membership are more important than ten years ago.
Tom Johnson

About LittleSis - LittleSis - 0 views

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networks charts Infoviz government coverage

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  • Tom Johnson on 12 Jul 12
     
    LittleSis is a free database detailing the connections between powerful people and organizations. We bring transparency to influential social networks by tracking the key relationships of politicians, business leaders, lobbyists, financiers, and their affiliated institutions. We help answer questions such as: Who do the wealthiest Americans donate their money to? Where did White House officials work before they were appointed? Which lobbyists are married to politicians, and who do they lobby for? All of this information is public, but scattered. We bring it together in one place. Our data derives from government filings, news articles, and other reputable sources. Some data sets are updated automatically; the rest is filled in by our user community. More Features »
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Europeana Linked Open Data - 0 views

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EU Europe open data government data

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  • Europeana Linked Open Data The data.europeana.eu pilot is part of Europeana's ongoing effort of making its metadata available as Linked Open Data on the Web. It allows others to access metadata collected from Europeana providers, via standard Web technologies, enrich this metadata and give this enriched metadata back to the providers. Links between Europeana resources and other resources in the Linked Data Web will enable discovery of semantically related resources, as, say, when two artworks are created by artists who are related to each other. The data is represented in the Europeana Data Model (EDM) and the described resources are addressable and dereferencable by their URIs - for instance, http://data.europeana.eu/item/09404/C3C50BD0958EE18ECE1B8F93780DC84D8273664F leads either to an HTML page on the Europeana portal for the object it identifies or to raw, machine-processable data on this object. Disclaimer: data.europeana.eu is currently in pilot stage, and can thus be changed at any moment! Your feedback is more than welcome, and may lead to updates in the prototype service. What's in here for you? data.europeana.eu currently contains metadata on 3.5 million texts, images, videos and sounds gathered by Europeana. These objects come from content providers who have reacted early and positively to Europeana's initiative of promoting more open data and new data exchange agreements. These collections come from 10 direct Europeana providers encompassing around 300 cultural institutions from 17 countries. They cover a great variety of heritage objects, such as this 18th-century view of a German landscape from the Polish National Museum in Warsaw, or Neil Robson's memories of the herring business from the Tyne and Wear Archives & Museums. For more information, see our datasets page.
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