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The National Audit Office has just published its verdict on the UK government's open data project. Find out what the report said - and get the indicators here:

Earlier this week the Ottawa Citizen ran a story in which I'm quoted about a fight between Treasury Board and Canada Post officials over making postal code data open. Treasury Board officials would love to add it to data.gc.ca while Canada post officials are, to put it mildly, deeply opposed.

"What is Big Data? A meme and a marketing term, for sure, but also shorthand for advancing trends in technology that open the door to a new approach to understanding the world and making decisions. There is a lot more data, all the time, growing at 50 percent a year, or more than doubling every two years, estimates IDC, a technology research firm. It's not just more streams of data, but entirely new ones. For example, there are now countless digital sensors worldwide in industrial equipment, automobiles, electrical meters and shipping crates. They can measure and communicate location, movement, vibration, temperature, humidity, even chemical changes in the air."

"Selon Gartner, si le big data rend les organisations plus intelligentes, l'open data les rend plus riches. L'open data aurait bien plus de poids pour augmenter les recettes et la valeur commerciale dans les environnements très compétitifs actuels."

Big Data, Linked Open Data... Les données déferlent en masse sur le web. Mais de quoi parle-t-on et quels sont ces nouveaux modèles et outils de traitement sémantique ? 

Selon un récent ouvrage d'un responsable de la Cantine numérique rennaise, les retombées économiques de l'open data ne sont pas à chercher dans la vente d'applications mais dans nombre de gains indirects.

Des start-up proposent de maîtriser les dépenses de santé ou de comparer l'action gouvernementale. Il y a un an et demi, la France adoptait une politique volontaire en matière de libération de données publiques (open data). La mission Etalab, formée en février 2011, s'est chargée de centraliser et de rendre accessible les informations publiques de différentes administrations d'État - inventaire du patrimoine immobilier de l'État, dépenses de la Sécurité sociale, listes de gares ferroviaires… - sur le portail Internet data.gouv.fr.

"Lors de son discours consacré aux perspectives économiques du 29 novembre 2011 (Autumn Statement), le Chancelier de l'Echiquier, George Osborne, a annoncé la création d'un Open Data Institute (ODI) dédié à la recherche et à l'innovation sur les données ouvertes. Le gouvernement participera au financement du projet à hauteur de 10 M£ sur cinq ans, à côté d'autres investisseurs venant de l'industrie et des universités."

We've long noted the need for data science types who can bridge between us. And now, to my utter delight, a new lab is emerging to complement our lab. The folks who are going to serve as the founding members of the new NYC lab are computer scientists, physicists, experimental economists, and data scientists. Many of them are interested in social network analysis and big data problems but - or shall I say crucially - they all see the value in collaborating with ethnographers. In other words, we're building a cross-lab team that'll create new possible interdisciplinary collaborations that make my heart go pitter patter. The new lab will become the thirteenth Microsoft Research office worldwide, but it is being heralded as a particularly significant addition, according to researchers who will work directly with the New York team. Danah Boyd, a member of Social Media Collective at Microsoft's New England site, says that new the new lab will complement the organisation's existing structure and help provide a bridge with her lab for future research:

"Health care costs rise as doctors try batches of treatments that don't work in search of one that does. Meanwhile, drug companies spend billions on developing each drug and increasingly end up with nothing to show for their pains. This is the alarming state of medical science today. Shahid Shah, device developer and system integrator, sees a different paradigm emerging. In this interview at the Open Source convention, Shah talks about how technologies and new ways of working can open up medical research."

"Selon Richard Hammell, associé à Deloitte Analytics UK, » certaines organisations pensent qu' « ouvrir » signifie tout publier, mais ce n'est pas le cas. Les entreprises sont libres de choisir les données qu'elles publient, comme celles qui peuvent aider leurs client à mieux trouver, comparer et comprendre leurs produits et services. Pour de nombreux groupes, le compromis est positif, stimule la croissance et mène à une concurrence plus équitable. Tirer parti de cette opportunité unique peut améliorer l'innovation et l'ingéniosité au sein des entreprises« ."

An informal group of CIOs from seven of the largest cities are launching their first project: a website that will house standardized data from each city, making it easier for them to share applications.

"In a world of big, open data, "privacy by design" will become even more important."

Google has opened its Knowledge Graph to the English-speaking world and has made intelligent voice search possible on mobile phones. Underneath it all, of course, are ever more-complex methods of analyzing data to make search smarter and easier than it has any business being.

Revolution Analytics delivers advanced analytics software at half the cost of existing solutions. By building on open source R-the world's most powerful statistics software-with innovations in big data analysis, integration and user experience, Revolution Analytics meets the demands and requirements of modern data-driven businesses.

In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans - one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world - Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities. News, data and conversation about education in New York. Join us on Facebook » Follow us on Twitter » Harvard's involvement follows M.I.T.'s announcement in December that it was starting an open online learning project to be known as MITx. Its first course, Circuits and Electronics, began in March, enrolling about 120,000 students, some 10,000 of whom made it through the recent midterm exam. Those who complete the course will get a certificate of mastery and a grade, but no official credit. Similarly, edX courses will offer a certificate but will carry no credit

Aujourd'hui, les habitudes de navigation des internautes sont souvent limitées à quelques propriétés web. La tâche est colossale pour tenter de les attirer sur nos plateformes. Alors que fait-on? Connaissez-vous le web sémantique ou les données ouvertes? Sachez que le web de demain en sera un de données. Est-ce que votre offre de service est disponible en données libres? Les données ouvertes ou Open Data sont un concept né de la culture web collaborative où l'on offre librement des informations à quiconque sur le web pour qu'il puisse les réutiliser à sa guise. Dans une optique marketing et plus précisément en tourisme, le stratège doit maintenant trouver des moyens pour que son offre puisse être consommée et intégrée dans d'autres propriétés web beaucoup plus établies que la sienne.

"Giving is receiving" is an old adage that doesn't work for everyone - at least, not when it comes to Wi-Fi. Few of us are happy to discover unauthorized others have been leeching bandwidth off our hotspots' signals. But a new kind of WiFi hotspot launching later this year wants to change that. It's called Karma. And, like the regular kind of karma, it works by returning to you what you share with others. In this case, Wi-Fi. Anyone in the vicinity can log on to your Karma Wi-Fi hotspot for a pay-as-you-go fee of $14 per GB of data. In return for each person who purchases connectivity through your device, you earn 100 Megabytes of free data - about enough to browse the Internet for five hours, and open 10,000 emails.