News Rewired Data Mash

Playing with data: all you need is glue... Tony Hirst Department of Communication and Systems, The Open University http://ouseful.info @psychemedia

At the start of April last year...
"the Guardian’s @datastore announced that a spreadsheet of UK MPs’ (Members of Parliament) expenses had been posted to the Guardian OpenPlatform datastore on Google Spreadsheets."

But what does it look like? ...because every picture tells a story

How's the Data Distributed?

Looking for (anti)correlations...

Enriching the data...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkpatator/2046061315/

Make the Data Fluid...

CSV Data From Google Spreadsheets
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ pub ?

key =phNtm3LmDZEObQ2itmSqHIA

& output=csv

& range=B2:AH684

Many Eyes Wikified Likes CSV Data http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=phNtm3LmDZEObQ2itmSqHIA&output=csv&range=B2:AH684 ////

http://www.flickr.com/photos/umdrums/3179636281/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/basvanuyen/4198419341/

http://pipes.yahoo.com

Some calculations are done for free...

“ Just” add location data

Geocoding

Help HTML Tables flow...

Creating flow...

Linked Data

Creating Visual Dashboard Feeds..

So what are you waiting for... ...start rewiring the news

Tony Hirst Dept of Communication and Systems, The Open University http://ouseful.info @psychemedia

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