Presentation at NIPS Machine Learning Open Source Software workshop Dec 12, 2013. Initiating the global R ecosystem for open government data.

1. open source ecosystem for open government data

5. ­> Borrow approaches from other fields
(bioinformatics, climatology, economics, ecology, physics)
similar data formats, related analytical challenges !

6. Open Goverment Data
Open Analysis Tools
rOpenGov
R/Github ecosystem for Open Government Data
seamless integration of open data, algorithms and applications

7. 1. Data Access
2. Data Analysis

8. Topic model for Finnish parliament debates
Data: Helsingin Sanomat

9. Euro crisis highlighted

10. Finland (sorvi):
males vs. females
http://andrewgelman.com/2009/03/03/how_went_the_20/
US elections
(Gelman's blog)
Russia (rustfare):
infant mortality
Poland (smarterpoland):
pulmonary clinics

11. New tools, new opportunities
­> promoting collaboration between computational & social
scientist through simplified access to data and analysis tools

12. Presidential elections ­ similar data in many countries

13. rOpenGov projects:

14. Welcome to join: ropengov.github.io

15. beta