Open data is freely available data that anyone can use and share under an open license. The presentation provides examples of open data projects including mapping applications, data visualizations, and tools that use open government data to provide insights. Attendees are encouraged to participate in open data training programs and hackathons to become involved in using and developing applications with open data.
Open Data - the new oil of the digital economyOpen Data NZ
Open Data is about the process of opening up a whole dataset so that people, other than the people who have collected that data, can actually make use of it in new & innovative ways, to bring about both social & economic benefits.
This is the presentation by Rochelle Stewart-Allen delivered to the Results 9 teams at Creative HQ, Wellington, New Zealand on 27 April 2016.
Opening up data in a data-driven world (ResBaz)Open Data NZ
Presentation by Rochelle Stewart-Allen on Research Bazaar, Palmerston North, New Zealand on 8 February 2017.
Speakers notes available on download.
Explore the potential of open data...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwX5MAZ6zKI
Opening up data in a data-driven world (Women in Spatial Breakfast)Open Data NZ
Presentation by Rochelle Stewart-Allen to the Women in Spatial Breakfast, Wellington, New Zealand on 2 March 2017.
Speakers notes available on download.
Explore the potential of open data...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwX5MAZ6zKI
odi peter wells - presentation - economics of dataPeter Wells
Presentation at #odrs2016 alongside #iodc16
Full research paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4TpC6ecmrM7Ny1LQlNpMEVIMVk/view
All papers linked here: http://odresearch.org/agenda.html
Open Data - the new oil of the digital economyOpen Data NZ
Open Data is about the process of opening up a whole dataset so that people, other than the people who have collected that data, can actually make use of it in new & innovative ways, to bring about both social & economic benefits.
This is the presentation by Rochelle Stewart-Allen delivered to the Results 9 teams at Creative HQ, Wellington, New Zealand on 27 April 2016.
Opening up data in a data-driven world (ResBaz)Open Data NZ
Presentation by Rochelle Stewart-Allen on Research Bazaar, Palmerston North, New Zealand on 8 February 2017.
Speakers notes available on download.
Explore the potential of open data...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwX5MAZ6zKI
Opening up data in a data-driven world (Women in Spatial Breakfast)Open Data NZ
Presentation by Rochelle Stewart-Allen to the Women in Spatial Breakfast, Wellington, New Zealand on 2 March 2017.
Speakers notes available on download.
Explore the potential of open data...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwX5MAZ6zKI
odi peter wells - presentation - economics of dataPeter Wells
Presentation at #odrs2016 alongside #iodc16
Full research paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4TpC6ecmrM7Ny1LQlNpMEVIMVk/view
All papers linked here: http://odresearch.org/agenda.html
Spatial Data Infrastructures developed at national and international level correspond to the strategy adopted by governments to support the emergence of a society spatially enabled, i.e. able to benefit from the geospatial data. At the local level, with reference to the smart city paradigm, a city -or community- answers to the "smart" requirement in its broadest sense, if the ICT solutions adopted to improve the lives of the community contribute, at the same time, to the emergence of spatially enabled citizens and businesses, thus allowing them access and use of geospatial data.
Smart cities’ SDIs play a key role in supporting the creation of a favorable environment for the spatial data sharing. Then, they may help the creation of spatially enabled cities, assigning a central function to their users; an SDI designed and managed adopting a user-centric vision, i.e. focused on the understanding of the needs of individuals and of their point of view, with respect to the geospatial data exploit, increases users' spatial practical ability, hence their spatial enablement.
In this context Semantics and Linked Open Data play a potentially political role in the creation of common, shared and searchable contents: spatially enabled citizens become the basis of a shared and recognized infrastructure.
SC6 Workshop 1: From your data to data stories - BigDataEurope, SC6 WorkshopBigData_Europe
Presentation by Anna Triantafillou, ATC and Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR ‘Demokritos’, at the first workshop of Societal Challlenge 6 in the BigDataEurope project, taking place in Luxembourg on 18 November 2015.
http://www.yourdatastories.eu
Research Data Australia and the national research data landscapeRichard Ferrers
A presentation to RMIT Researcher Training week; 9 Oct 2018.
For Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC.edu.au).
Research Data Australia is the Australian national research data catalogue, managed by ARDC.
Machine learning is a collection of techniques for understanding data, including methods for visualization, prediction, classification and other tasks relevant to data analysis. However, as data continues to grow in size and dimensionality, making sense of the outputs of machine learning algorithms becomes extremely difficult without having to trim down the size of the data set.
During the webinar Alexis Johnson will discuss how Topological Data Analysis provides a framework for characterizing shape in complex data. This shape can be used to study the underlying structure of the data, identify sub-populations, and statistically explore their distinguishing characteristics. To view this recorded webinar please click here... http://ow.ly/u2kw8
Derilinx presentation at ITAPA 2014 International Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia
http://www.itapa.sk/4735-en/medzinarodny-kongres-itapa-2014-future-is-today/
Presentation given as part of an ESRC UK Data Service webinar providing an introduction to open access UK geospatial data and open source geospatial software which can be used to perform analysis and visualisation of these datasets.
Pangiota Koltsida & Dimitris Gavrilis' presentation at the RDA Europe - BlueBRIDGE datathon on fisheries and aquaculture, 15-16 June 2017, Heraklion, Crete
Open Data and Innovation - Affiliated industries group - Feb 2015enotsluap
Presentation to the Affiliated Industries Group on Open Government Data - the government's policies and programme - and stories of innovative re-use of government data.
ITx 2016 - Open sourcing the open source policyOpen Data NZ
Telling the story of using open source tools and methods for an open government policy consultation process while developing an open source licensing guide for government agencies
Presentatoin at ALGIM GIS Symposium April 2016, talking about the New Zealand policy setting for open data and the intent. Including some stories and about data being put to use and where the policy has had a specific impact.
Spatial Data Infrastructures developed at national and international level correspond to the strategy adopted by governments to support the emergence of a society spatially enabled, i.e. able to benefit from the geospatial data. At the local level, with reference to the smart city paradigm, a city -or community- answers to the "smart" requirement in its broadest sense, if the ICT solutions adopted to improve the lives of the community contribute, at the same time, to the emergence of spatially enabled citizens and businesses, thus allowing them access and use of geospatial data.
Smart cities’ SDIs play a key role in supporting the creation of a favorable environment for the spatial data sharing. Then, they may help the creation of spatially enabled cities, assigning a central function to their users; an SDI designed and managed adopting a user-centric vision, i.e. focused on the understanding of the needs of individuals and of their point of view, with respect to the geospatial data exploit, increases users' spatial practical ability, hence their spatial enablement.
In this context Semantics and Linked Open Data play a potentially political role in the creation of common, shared and searchable contents: spatially enabled citizens become the basis of a shared and recognized infrastructure.
SC6 Workshop 1: From your data to data stories - BigDataEurope, SC6 WorkshopBigData_Europe
Presentation by Anna Triantafillou, ATC and Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR ‘Demokritos’, at the first workshop of Societal Challlenge 6 in the BigDataEurope project, taking place in Luxembourg on 18 November 2015.
http://www.yourdatastories.eu
Research Data Australia and the national research data landscapeRichard Ferrers
A presentation to RMIT Researcher Training week; 9 Oct 2018.
For Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC.edu.au).
Research Data Australia is the Australian national research data catalogue, managed by ARDC.
Machine learning is a collection of techniques for understanding data, including methods for visualization, prediction, classification and other tasks relevant to data analysis. However, as data continues to grow in size and dimensionality, making sense of the outputs of machine learning algorithms becomes extremely difficult without having to trim down the size of the data set.
During the webinar Alexis Johnson will discuss how Topological Data Analysis provides a framework for characterizing shape in complex data. This shape can be used to study the underlying structure of the data, identify sub-populations, and statistically explore their distinguishing characteristics. To view this recorded webinar please click here... http://ow.ly/u2kw8
Derilinx presentation at ITAPA 2014 International Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia
http://www.itapa.sk/4735-en/medzinarodny-kongres-itapa-2014-future-is-today/
Presentation given as part of an ESRC UK Data Service webinar providing an introduction to open access UK geospatial data and open source geospatial software which can be used to perform analysis and visualisation of these datasets.
Pangiota Koltsida & Dimitris Gavrilis' presentation at the RDA Europe - BlueBRIDGE datathon on fisheries and aquaculture, 15-16 June 2017, Heraklion, Crete
Open Data and Innovation - Affiliated industries group - Feb 2015enotsluap
Presentation to the Affiliated Industries Group on Open Government Data - the government's policies and programme - and stories of innovative re-use of government data.
ITx 2016 - Open sourcing the open source policyOpen Data NZ
Telling the story of using open source tools and methods for an open government policy consultation process while developing an open source licensing guide for government agencies
Presentatoin at ALGIM GIS Symposium April 2016, talking about the New Zealand policy setting for open data and the intent. Including some stories and about data being put to use and where the policy has had a specific impact.
Open Government Data - Supporting Democratic Participationenotsluap
Slides for a workshop held at the Community Development Conference 2015 at Auckland on 19 February 2015. The Aim of the workshop was to raise awareness of the Open Government Data Programme and the value in data to support advocacy and solve problems.
All Things Open 2014 - Day 1
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Jason Hare
Director of Open Data of the Open Data Institute
Open Government/Open Data
Sustainable Open Data Markets
OGPL is a joint product from India and United States to promote transparency and greater citizen engagement by making more government data, documents, tools and processes publicly available.
This presentation by Content Manager Alan Cairns examines what quality content means and how public data can be used to produce interesting and insightful stories.
El impacto de open data en el mundo y en Venezuela. Profesora Maria Esther Vidal. Universidad Simón Bolivar. Presentacion realizada durante el boot camp sobre periodismo de datos-Venezuela.
Presentation on Open Government Data Tools and Infrastructure for Citizen Engagement at the WSIS Forum, May 2012 in Geneva Switzerland.
See: http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2012/Agenda/DraftAgenda.aspx?se=43276
Presentation to the New Zealand Transport Agency Open Data Day. Covering Government policy and intentions, "open by design" and examples of open data reuse
Open Data NZ - International Open Data Conference Madrid presentation Open Data NZ
Explore the potential of open data...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwX5MAZ6zKI
Open Data NZ is the New Zealand government's open data programme driving the supply and demand of open government data.
Open data has the potential to change the way we see our ourselves, our world and our future.
Open data, open potential - @opendatanz #opendatanz | opendata@linz.govt.nz
Open Data for ALGIM Records and Information Management SymposiumOpen Data NZ
Open Data for ALGIM Records and Information Management Symposium. Covering government policy and intent, open by design and examples of open data reuse
What is open government data? - an overview of New Zealand's Open Government Data and Information Programme. For more detail go to: https://www.ict.govt.nz/programmes-and-initiatives/open-and-transparent-government/open-government-information-and-data-work-programm/
Monitoring Health for the SDGs - Global Health Statistics 2024 - WHOChristina Parmionova
The 2024 World Health Statistics edition reviews more than 50 health-related indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals and WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work. It also highlights the findings from the Global health estimates 2021, notably the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
Preliminary findings _OECD field visits to ten regions in the TSI EU mining r...OECDregions
Preliminary findings from OECD field visits for the project: Enhancing EU Mining Regional Ecosystems to Support the Green Transition and Secure Mineral Raw Materials Supply.
Donate to charity during this holiday seasonSERUDS INDIA
For people who have money and are philanthropic, there are infinite opportunities to gift a needy person or child a Merry Christmas. Even if you are living on a shoestring budget, you will be surprised at how much you can do.
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-to-donate-to-charity-during-this-holiday-season/
#charityforchildren, #donateforchildren, #donateclothesforchildren, #donatebooksforchildren, #donatetoysforchildren, #sponsorforchildren, #sponsorclothesforchildren, #sponsorbooksforchildren, #sponsortoysforchildren, #seruds, #kurnool
RFP for Reno's Community Assistance CenterThis Is Reno
Property appraisals completed in May for downtown Reno’s Community Assistance and Triage Centers (CAC) reveal that repairing the buildings to bring them back into service would cost an estimated $10.1 million—nearly four times the amount previously reported by city staff.
Working with data is a challenge for many organizations. Nonprofits in particular may need to collect and analyze sensitive, incomplete, and/or biased historical data about people. In this talk, Dr. Cori Faklaris of UNC Charlotte provides an overview of current AI capabilities and weaknesses to consider when integrating current AI technologies into the data workflow. The talk is organized around three takeaways: (1) For better or sometimes worse, AI provides you with “infinite interns.” (2) Give people permission & guardrails to learn what works with these “interns” and what doesn’t. (3) Create a roadmap for adding in more AI to assist nonprofit work, along with strategies for bias mitigation.
About Potato, The scientific name of the plant is Solanum tuberosum (L).Christina Parmionova
The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile
Synopsis (short abstract) In December 2023, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 30 May as the International Day of Potato.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Open data - the new oil of the digital economy (School of Government presentation)
1. OPEN DATA:
The new oil of the digital economy
Rochelle Stewart-Allen
Open Government Information & Data Programme
for School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, 2 June 2016
@opendatanz #opendataleadership
2. Open data is data that anyone can take,
use and share. It needs an open licence,
and it needs to be openly available.
What is open data?
Governments collect a great deal of information - about the companies it regulates, the built and natural environment, and about individuals - whether it about the delivery of healthcare or criminal justice or other services it provides to us.
When you make all of a dataset available, it allows other people to analyse that data, visualise that data, run comparisons, see trends, develop new apps, and solutions.
It is really, in short, about the process of opening up a whole dataset so that people, other than the people who have collected that data, can actually make use of it in new ways.
What makes all of this significant is not simply that the data is available. It is that the data becomes the raw material to engage other people. It is a tool for participation. The data by itself is really quite meaningless.
VIDEO
Here’s what open data can do:
SOCIAL OUTCOMES ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
Foster economic growth and create jobs: help launch new businesses or make businesses more efficient; improve the job market; create jobs (data science is considered one of the best jobs to have in the future)
Improve efficiency and effectiveness within the public sector: open data can help strengthen healthcare systems by connecting patients to providers; promote education and ongoing learning; and improve food security on both a large and small scale
Increase transparency & accountability within governments, & citizen participation in decision-making: the more open & transparent governments are, the less corruption can exist; provide environmental sustainability through reducing pollution, protecting & conserving natural resources; building resilience to climate change
Facilitate better information-sharing within government: open data helps improve cities and urban infrastructure; improve disaster resilience; allow essential resources will be distributed effectively in emergencies.
HERE Maps is one of the 3 largest digital map providers in the world (the others are Google Maps & Tom-Tom)
They are building a world roading map in preparation for driverless cars
Images, GPS coordinates & LiDAR scans are mapping our roads, including in NZ
So where does open data come in? Open data enrichens the map data with relevant information about traffic, parking, shops, hotels and so on – all things that are needed when using a digital map or riding around in a driverless car
BlindSquare is a smartphone app that allows blind & visibly impaired people to navigate a city
Originating in Helsinki, the app originally took open data on public transport & services, & combined it with social networking app Foursquare, & Open Street Map
It describes the environment, and announces points of interest & intersections as the person travels around the city
The product now works in dozens of countries and languages, including NZ
Thundermaps
ThunderMaps is a mobile hazard and incident reporting app, with the goal of making workplaces safer
Users now automatically receive alerts for hazards and incidents for areas of their choice eg. their home, their workplace, school areas
They can receive information about police call-out locations, fire alerts, earthquakes, rainfall or traffic accident
‘Real-time’ reporting of hazards reduces the occurrence of related incidents, immediately improves safety, & provide quick analysis and elimination of hazards
It also means time & cost savings are made as mobile hazard reporting can easily be integrated into business processes
RentSquare
A UK start-up which connects landlords and tenants online, without the need for letting agencies
Using open data, RentSquare uses a calculator that works out the sweet spot for rents for every address in the UK
It combines open data from the Land Registry, with local authority data on housing benefit and rent levels in London as well as Bank of England economic data
Critchlow is a privately-owned New Zealand geospatial services consultancy which publishes demographic census data into visualisation and analysis on a map
This information is then bundled and on-sold to Critchlow’s customers
It’s used to optimise retail networks, profile and acquire profitable customers, inform planning and zoning decisions, and underpin policy development in the public sector
Provides better return on investment for client marketing campaigns, reduced cost of delivery for public services, improved access to critical infrastructure, and safer decisions around location of services
The High 5s application is a landmark initiative from the African Development Bank
The goal is to accelerate Africa’s development over the next 10 years
High 5 uses open data to track 5 priority areas for development – light up & power Africa; feed Africa; integrate Africa; industrialise Africa; and improve quality of life
The application tracks each countries progress again the priority areas & provides visibility across the relevant areas
This demonstrates transparency & accountability
Open data is having a huge impact on emergency responsiveness in natural disasters
Both after the Nepal earthquake last year & the Ecuador earthquake this year, organisations around the world started immediately releasing imagery & crowd-sourced data to help the disaster response
Several international organisations & crowd-sourced efforts began producing & sharing data about the earthquake’s impacts
Open data provides useful information to understand the context of the affected cities and towns before the earthquakes
This data is used during the response & recovery phases to understand the affected population & infrastructure eg. demographic information provides insight into the affected population, identifying needs around age & gender distribution.
Where can I find open data?
Data.govt.nz is the primary site in NZ to find open government data
More than 4,300 datasets are currently listed on there
You can be involved in helping develop Version 2! – help test the new Beta site being launched in mid-July
The new site will make the data easier to find & provide a preview & visualisation of the data before you download it
This will help the user see if the data is relevant to what they’re needing
So I encourage you to visit the current site & search for data you’re interested in
Figure.nz pulls together data from the NZ public & private sectors & academic data in one place, & makes it easy for people to see in a visualised form
Explore the population by age group, mobile connections, exports to China or the types of devices used to access the internet
Click on the relevant link to download the dataset itself and do your own analysis
Data Insights at the NZ Herald brings data journalism & interactive visualisations together.
Explore the houses available in Auckland, how many burglaries are happening in a particular neighbourhood, the gender pay gap, or how unemployment differs by ethnicity.
Learn to simply visualise open datasets yourself
There are a multitude of free visualisations tools out there
You simply feed your dataset or datasets into the tool & at the touch of a button, visualisation is available
These visualisations can be used for analysis, reporting, presentations
Optimal BI are running free 2-hour Qlik training courses in June/July
Go to their website to register
GovHack is an Australian hackathon run over the weekend of 29-31 July (Friday evening – Sunday evening)
What is a hackathon? – it’s a combination of ‘hack’ & ‘marathon’
GovHack is essentially a weekend of teams coming together to use data to tell a story
It is run in 9 locations around NZ plus more in Australia
The multi-skilled teams mean you don’t need to be data savvy
Instead bring your creative, strategic, planning, visualising, leadership skills
It’s totally free & everything is provided – just bring your device
We need more Open Data Heroes & you can become one today!
Find out what open data is being released in your organisation. If nothing is being released, ask why
Actively use open data to provide evidence-based practice
Check out this Optimal BI blog which talks about the main issues people raise about why they can’t release data. It also gives you suitable responses