All Things Open 2014 - Day 1 Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014 Robert Bates Senior Developer for Phase2 Open Government/Open Data Open Data + Open Government = Open Goodness

1. Open Data
+
Open Government
=
Open Goodness

2. by Robert Bates
Phase2
rbates@phase2technology.com
arpieb most other places

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard

4. What is “open data?”

5. “He who receives an idea from me,
receives instruction himself without lessening mine;
as he who lights his taper at mine,
receives light without darkening me.”
-Thomas Jefferson

6. Information has public good characteristics.
It is ‘non-rivalrous.’
One person’s consumption of it
doesn’t prevent others consuming it.

7. If it can’t be spidered or indexed, it doesn’t exist.
If it isn’t available in open and machine readable format, it can’t
engage.
If a legal framework doesn’t allow it to be re-purposed, it doesn’t
empower.
TheThree Laws of Open Government Data
(http://eaves.ca/2009/09/30/three-law-ofopen-government-data)

8. What kinds of data?
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Cultural
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Scientific
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Finance
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Statistics
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Weather
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Environment
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Transport
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Etc ad nauseum...

9. Why is open data
important?

10. Open data is global...
Scaling recent results of the McKinsey Global Institute
suggests that implementation of open data policies
… could increase G20 output by around USD 13
trillion over the next five years.
“Open for Business: How Open Data Can Help Achieve the G20
Growth Target.” June 2014.

11. Open data promotes...
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Transparency
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Social value
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Commercial value
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Engagement

12. Great stuff!
Now what?

13. Be a data consumer...
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DataCatalogs.org
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FedStats.gov
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DBPedia.org
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Data.gov
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Data.gov.uk

14. Be a data consumer...
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Industry associations
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Research organizations
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NPOs / NGOs (UN, IMF, WorldBank, etc)

15. TANSTAAFL!
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Reduce API calls where possible (caching ftw!) to prevent
overloading of servers
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Make your data analysis available where possible - pay it forward
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Don't try to bypass API key usage - analytics help fund open data!
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Offer to sponsor or assist data provider if there is commercial
value forYOU

16. … or be a data provider!
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CKAN
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DKAN
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Hadoop
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Socrata Open Data Server
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Good ol' HTTP/FTP
… anything that gets it out there!

17. What can you
do
with it?

18. What can you do with it?

19. What can you do with it?

20. Where can
you
find out more?

21. Organizations

22. Questions?