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Weekly Update: Rufus Pollock – 27th February 2012
Availability All week (in London Tues + Fri) Last Week Talked at LIFT 2012 on Open Data Work on Webstore in CKAN With Laura Newman Open Data Handbook v1.0 Released With Velickha Dimitrova announced...
View ArticleShuttleworth Fellowship Quarterly Review – Feb 2012
As part of my Shuttleworth Fellowship I’m preparing quarterly reviews of what I and the Open Knowledge Foundation have been up to. So, herewith are some some highlights from the last 3 months....
View ArticleWeekly Update: Rufus Pollock – 19th March 2012
Availability All week except Thursday (in London Tues + Fri) Last Week Monday: CKAN DataStore and Data API v2 live on the DataHub Wed-Fri: EPSI Platform Conference in Rotterdam including a Presentation...
View ArticleWeekly Update: Rufus Pollock – 2nd April 2012
Availability All week Last Week Strategy meeting School of Data DataHub, CKAN and Recline Data Explorer Proposals including TA Bridge Open Data Handbook – put up translations, plan next steps This Week...
View ArticleWeekly Update: Rufus Pollock – 14th May 2012
Availability All week In Manchester for Future Everything Thursday and Friday Last Week In San Francisco for ONEF meeting Previous weeks: travelling in Brazil This Week Future Everything DataHub, CKAN...
View ArticlePublic Debt, Public Finances and OpenSpending
Excerpts and commentary on Niall Ferguson’s first Reith Lecture. All emphasis added. In reading this piece I thought constantly of the Open Spending project where we are endeavouring to collect...
View ArticleProblems with RecordMyDesktop and a Command Line Alternative
I have been trying to create screencasts using RecordMyDesktop on Ubuntu. While the app itself functioned well I had a serious problem with the image quality: switching windows seemed to lead to...
View ArticleDebt Does Not Equal Revenue Except in California
Striking quote on inability to understand that debt != revenue: California is also confused about the meaning of the term “revenues”. Asked at a 2008 budget conference whether Schwarzenegger would...
View ArticleState Budget Crisis Task Force Report
The State Budget Crisis Task Force was convened in June 2011 and issued its report in July 2012. The top line quote from the main site states: State finances are not transparent and often include...
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Average Annual Change in US Mean Family Income, 1950-2010
Average Annual Change in Mean Family Income, 1950-2010, by Quintile and for the Top 5 Percent. Source: Pew Research report “Fewer, Poorer, Gloomier: The Lost Decade of the Middle Class” p. 9.
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Git (and Github) for Data
The ability to do “version control” for data is a big deal. There are various options but one of the most attractive is to reuse existing tools for doing this with code, like git and mercurial. This...
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Save the Date – OGP Pre-Conference, London Wednesday 30th October
This Autumn the Open Government Partnership Annual Conference is coming to London and will place on the 31st October and 1st November. As a lead in to the main event, in collaboration with the OGP...
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Progress on the Data Explorer
This is an update on progress with the Data Explorer (aka Data Transformer). Progress is best seen from this demo which takes you on a tour of house prices and the difference between real and nominal...
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Cleaning up Greater London Authority Spending (for OpenSpending)
I’ve been working to get Greater London Authority spending data cleaned up and into OpenSpending. Primary motivation comes from this question: Which companies got paid the most (and for doing what)?...
View ArticleQuick and Dirty Analysis on Large CSVs
I’m playing around with some large(ish) CSV files as part of a OpenSpending related data investigation to look at UK government spending last year – example question: which companies were the top 10...
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Update on PublicBodies.org – a URL for every part of Government
This is an update on PublicBodies.org - a Labs project whose aim is to provide a “URL for every part of Government”: http://publicbodies.org/ PublicBodies.org is a database and website of “Public...
View Articledata.okfn.org – update no. 1
This is the first of regular updates on Labs project http://data.okfn.org/ and summarizes some of the changes and improvements over the last few weeks. 1. Refactor of site layout and focus. We’ve done...
View ArticleQuerying ElasticSearch – A Tutorial and Guide
ElasticSearch is a great open-source search tool that’s built on Lucene (like SOLR) but is natively JSON + RESTful. Its been used quite a bit at the Open Knowledge Foundation over the last few years....
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Open Data Maker Night London No 3 – Tuesday 16th July
The next Open Data Maker Night London will be on Tuesday 16th July 6-9pm (you can drop in any time during the evening). Like the last two it is kindly hosted by the wonderful Centre for Creative...
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Introducing Open Knowledge Foundation Labs
Today we’re pleased to officially launch Open Knowledge Foundation Labs, a community home for civic hackers, data wranglers and anyone else intrigued and excited by the possibilities of combining...
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