Open Data Journalism Alex@oreilly.com @digiphile
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innovators around the world.

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Makers and open source hardware

In the 1990s, government and
civil society spread the Internet globally

In the 2000s, mobile phones
and social networking connected us ever more

The
stream

In the 2010s, big data
will change everything again. Image Credit: Real Time Rome from Senseable.MIT.edu

Open data allows citizens to
be generative in new ways

Platforms for citizens to self-organize
Image Credit: ITO World

HHS Community Health Data

An expanding number of data
sources

Open government data platforms

Commercial and industry data

Social data and crisis data

Civic startups & media-generated data

“Traffic on the NYC Health
Department’s restaurant inspection site has gone from 10,000 hits per month to 124,000” - New York Times

Public-private data hybrids

“If Stage 1 of data
journalism was “find and scrape data,” then… Stage 2 was “ask government agencies to release data” in easy to use formats. Stage 3 is going to be “make your own data”, and those sources of data are going to be automated and updated in real-time.” -JavaunMoradi, NPR

"The transparency genie is out
of the bottle — world wide — and it's not going back into the darkness of that lantern ever again. Progress will be slow, but it will be progress.” - Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation

Transparency is not enough Data
illiteracy is leading to a new data divide. Risk: open data empowers the empowered. Illustration: Brock Davis

Bridge the data divide Digital
signage on the cheap

“Data-driven journalism is the future”
Source: Tim Berners-Lee in the Guardian

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