Successfully reported this slideshow.
We use your LinkedIn profile and activity data to personalize ads and to show you more relevant ads. You can change your ad preferences anytime.
Content created by The Open Data Institute Using Open Data Dr David Tarrant | @davetaz | The Open Data Institute
Content created by The Open Data Institute Agenda Discovering open data Quality and provenance Data analysis and visualisa...
Content created by The Open Data Institute Agenda Discovering open data Quality and provenance Data analysis and visualisa...
Content created by The Open Data Institute
Content created by The Open Data Institute data.gov.XX
Content created by The Open Data Institute Google advanced site: Get results only from certain sites or domains link: Find...
Content created by The Open Data Institute Aggregators and portals Collect together data from across the web into one plac...
Content created by The Open Data Institute Scraping If you can’t obtain usable data (csv, xls) then you may have to resort...
Content created by The Open Data Institute
Content created by The Open Data Institute
Content created by The Open Data Institute
Content created by The Open Data Institute
Content created by The Open Data Institute Agenda Discovering open data Quality and provenance Data analysis and visualisa...
Content created by The Open Data Institute Guidelines 5 - S t a r s ★★★★★
Content created by The Open Data Institute Open Data Certificate http://certificates.theodi.org
Content created by The Open Data Institute Establishing trust in data Who Collected it? Owns it? Publishes it? Is the Audi...
Content created by The Open Data Institute http://5stardata.info/ ★★★★★ 5-Stars
Content created by The Open Data Institute Open Refine http://openrefine.org A free power tool for cleaning messy data
Content created by The Open Data Institute Agenda Discovering open data Quality and provenance Data analysis and visualisa...
Content created by The Open Data Institute Data analysis Quantitative Qualitative
Content created by The Open Data Institute Remember • Not all data is structured • Not all numeric data is structured • So...
Content created by The Open Data Institute Analysing quantitative data
Content created by The Open Data Institute Beware! • Targets • Fluctuation • Chance • Correlation != Causation https://xkc...
Content created by The Open Data Institute Analysing qualitative data Entity recognition can help with coding and thematic...
Content created by The Open Data Institute Visualisaion Not all data visualisations are good!
Content created by The Open Data Institute Picking the right visulisation 1) Audience • Who are your audience and what do ...
Content created by The Open Data Institute Keep it simple! Which country achieved the greatest crop yield in 2014?
Content created by The Open Data Institute Nothing wrong with a bar chart Observe how you don’t need unnecessary clutter l...
Content created by The Open Data Institute Simple lines and interactivity https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/0 1/15/...
Content created by The Open Data Institute Agenda Discovering open data Quality and provenance Data analysis and visualisa...
Content created by The Open Data Institute The policy cycle Open data helps at every stage of the policy cycle!
Content created by The Open Data Institute Example policy Agenda: To publish more open data from Universities on Agricultu...
Content created by The Open Data Institute Understanding researchers Universities are ranked on the quality of their resea...
Content created by The Open Data Institute How research creates impact 1) The journal of publication 2) The number of cita...
Content created by The Open Data Institute Doing the same for research data 1) Create reputable places to share data 2) Cr...
Content created by The Open Data Institute https://blog.datacite.org/general-assembly-2016/
Content created by The Open Data Institute Recap Discovering open data Quality and provenance Data analysis and visualisat...
Content created by The Open Data Institute Thank-you Dr David Tarrant | @davetaz | The Open Data Institute https://xkcd.co...
Upcoming SlideShare
Loading in …5
×

Using Open Data - David Tarrant

258 views

Published on

In this webinar, we look at how you obtain and use open data, the key role of search engines and how you establish rust in the data you find. The webinar will also look at the quality of data and how to clean and prepare data for analysis. Finally, the session will look at how you can quickly visualise cleaned data and the applications of this in the agriculture sector.

Published in: Technology
no profile picture user

  • Be the first to comment

Using Open Data - David Tarrant

  1. 1. Content created by The Open Data Institute Using Open Data Dr David Tarrant | @davetaz | The Open Data Institute
  2. 2. Content created by The Open Data Institute Agenda Discovering open data Quality and provenance Data analysis and visualisation Open data in policy cycles Referencing data
  3. 3. Content created by The Open Data Institute Agenda Discovering open data Quality and provenance Data analysis and visualisation Open data in policy cycles Referencing data
  4. 4. Content created by The Open Data Institute
  5. 5. Content created by The Open Data Institute data.gov.XX
  6. 6. Content created by The Open Data Institute Google advanced site: Get results only from certain sites or domains link: Find pages that link to a certain page related: Find sites similar to one you already know filetype: Find certain file types only
  7. 7. Content created by The Open Data Institute Aggregators and portals Collect together data from across the web into one place. FAO World Bank
  8. 8. Content created by The Open Data Institute Scraping If you can’t obtain usable data (csv, xls) then you may have to resort to scraping. pdftables.com magic.import.io
  9. 9. Content created by The Open Data Institute
  10. 10. Content created by The Open Data Institute
  11. 11. Content created by The Open Data Institute
  12. 12. Content created by The Open Data Institute
  13. 13. Content created by The Open Data Institute Agenda Discovering open data Quality and provenance Data analysis and visualisation Open data in policy cycles Referencing data
  14. 14. Content created by The Open Data Institute Guidelines 5 - S t a r s ★★★★★
  15. 15. Content created by The Open Data Institute Open Data Certificate http://certificates.theodi.org
  16. 16. Content created by The Open Data Institute Establishing trust in data Who Collected it? Owns it? Publishes it? Is the Audience? What Is it (title/description)? Type of data is it? Type of objects? When Collected? Published? Updated? Due next update? Where Was it collected? Is it used? Is it described? Is it located?
  17. 17. Content created by The Open Data Institute http://5stardata.info/ ★★★★★ 5-Stars
  18. 18. Content created by The Open Data Institute Open Refine http://openrefine.org A free power tool for cleaning messy data
  19. 19. Content created by The Open Data Institute Agenda Discovering open data Quality and provenance Data analysis and visualisation Open data in policy cycles Referencing data
  20. 20. Content created by The Open Data Institute Data analysis Quantitative Qualitative
  21. 21. Content created by The Open Data Institute Remember • Not all data is structured • Not all numeric data is structured • Some text data is structured
  22. 22. Content created by The Open Data Institute Analysing quantitative data
  23. 23. Content created by The Open Data Institute Beware! • Targets • Fluctuation • Chance • Correlation != Causation https://xkcd.com/925/
  24. 24. Content created by The Open Data Institute Analysing qualitative data Entity recognition can help with coding and thematic network analysis. Try Open Calais Search: open calais
  25. 25. Content created by The Open Data Institute Visualisaion Not all data visualisations are good!
  26. 26. Content created by The Open Data Institute Picking the right visulisation 1) Audience • Who are your audience and what do they expect? 2) Purpose • What story are you trying to tell. 3) Data • What types of visulisation suit the data
  27. 27. Content created by The Open Data Institute Keep it simple! Which country achieved the greatest crop yield in 2014?
  28. 28. Content created by The Open Data Institute Nothing wrong with a bar chart Observe how you don’t need unnecessary clutter like axis and labels you can’t read
  29. 29. Content created by The Open Data Institute Simple lines and interactivity https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/0 1/15/us/politics/you-draw-obama- legacy.html?_r=0
  30. 30. Content created by The Open Data Institute Agenda Discovering open data Quality and provenance Data analysis and visualisation Open data in policy cycles Referencing data
  31. 31. Content created by The Open Data Institute The policy cycle Open data helps at every stage of the policy cycle!
  32. 32. Content created by The Open Data Institute Example policy Agenda: To publish more open data from Universities on Agriculture. Why? To increase the benefit from this data to improve agriculture worldwide. But what is the benefit to those who already hold the data?
  33. 33. Content created by The Open Data Institute Understanding researchers Universities are ranked on the quality of their research which is linked to publication. Therefor if data publication can hold the same value and benefit then we should see more data.
  34. 34. Content created by The Open Data Institute How research creates impact 1) The journal of publication 2) The number of citations the paper has
  35. 35. Content created by The Open Data Institute Doing the same for research data 1) Create reputable places to share data 2) Create a way to link/reference the data, including an index 3) Mandate the publication of research data
  36. 36. Content created by The Open Data Institute https://blog.datacite.org/general-assembly-2016/
  37. 37. Content created by The Open Data Institute Recap Discovering open data Quality and provenance Data analysis and visualisation Open data in policy cycles Referencing data
  38. 38. Content created by The Open Data Institute Thank-you Dr David Tarrant | @davetaz | The Open Data Institute https://xkcd.com/552/

×