Better use of open statistical data through standardized publishing approaches can help governments improve public services. The Open Statistics project aims to make demographic, economic, and social statistics easier to use for analysis, visualization, and applications by applying the data cube model and Linked Data technologies to represent statistical data. Running from 2016 to 2019, OpenGovIntelligence is developing tools for working with Linked Open Statistical Data and demonstrating how statistical data cubes can enable innovative, data-driven public services through pilots with government authorities in six countries.
Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric analysisKim Holmberg
A webometric study about the interlinking between local government web sites in Finland. Paper presented at the 11th conference of International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics in 2007 Madrid, Spain.
The programming language R is getting increasingly popular among scientists of different research fields, in industry, as well as journalism. Starting from a purely statistically oriented environment, current open-source development in R attracts researchers that need a wide variety of tools necessary to tidy and understand the datasets they are using and communicate their findings. Recently, we noticed an increasing interest in R as a language for data science in the province of Bolzano/Bozen and started a community - BolzanoR (https://www.bolzanor.eu/) - which with the goal to inform about recent developments in R, to openly share knowledge, to create synergies between researchers and to openly disseminate news and activities. In short, to build a local community of R users.
The inherent necessities for a data scientist are reliable, accessible, and well-curated - preferably open - data sources. Here the link to the OpenDataHub Südtirol becomes evident. Researchers and data analysts will greet the datasets hosted by OpenDataHub Südtirol as valuable assets. First, this talk presents the BolzanoR community. Then it imagines future links and activities between BolzanoR and the OpenDatahub Südtirol to value possible synergies and expand upon the existing potentials.
Using Road Sensor Data for Official Statistics: towards a Big Data MethodologyPiet J.H. Daas
This document discusses using road sensor data for official statistics in the Netherlands. It describes challenges around dealing with large volumes of data, creating historical time series, and ensuring accuracy. A statistical process is outlined that cleans, transforms, selects, estimates from and frames the raw road sensor data, which records over 230 million vehicle counts per day. Key steps include selecting only necessary variables from valid data on main routes, putting daily records together, cleaning using recursive Bayesian estimation and a hidden Markov model, and estimating traffic indices from the cleaned data.
ERSA 2017: A linked open data based system for flexible delineation of geogra...Ali Khalili
This document summarizes a linked open data based system for flexible delineation of geographic areas developed by the Semantically Mapping Science (SMS) Platform. The SMS Platform aims to integrate heterogeneous data sources to generate new insights. It develops services for entity recognition, metadata, categories, basic and innovative geospatial analysis, and integration of public, private and open datasets. The platform builds a linked open data space representing administrative boundaries from multiple sources. It extracts, links and enriches geographic data to flexibly define functional geographic areas for analysis. An example use case examines the relationship between innovation projects, socioeconomic variables and hybrid functional areas in the Netherlands.
The document discusses the Austrian open government data portal data.gv.at. As of May 2014, the portal contained 1,228 datasets from 26 publishers, with 236 applications developed using the data and an average of 350 unique visitors per day. The document raises questions about how to achieve sustainable commitment from participating organizations, what strategic partnerships could help increase awareness of open government data outside of the open government community, and how to gain political leadership support needed for sustainable development of open data initiatives in Austria.
The document discusses Austria's national open government data portal called data.gv.at. It aims to have federal, state, and local governments cooperate on common standards for open data to create an effective framework. The goals are to represent interests across levels of government and connect to other open data initiatives. The portal launched in 2012 and plans to expand features like self-administration, dynamic elements, and integrating Austrian datasets into a European catalog while potentially offering paid dataset hosting.
Better use of open statistical data through standardized publishing approaches can help governments improve public services. The Open Statistics project aims to make demographic, economic, and social statistics easier to use for analysis, visualization, and applications by applying the data cube model and Linked Data technologies to represent statistical data. Running from 2016 to 2019, OpenGovIntelligence is developing tools for working with Linked Open Statistical Data and demonstrating how statistical data cubes can enable innovative, data-driven public services through pilots with government authorities in six countries.
Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric analysisKim Holmberg
A webometric study about the interlinking between local government web sites in Finland. Paper presented at the 11th conference of International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics in 2007 Madrid, Spain.
The programming language R is getting increasingly popular among scientists of different research fields, in industry, as well as journalism. Starting from a purely statistically oriented environment, current open-source development in R attracts researchers that need a wide variety of tools necessary to tidy and understand the datasets they are using and communicate their findings. Recently, we noticed an increasing interest in R as a language for data science in the province of Bolzano/Bozen and started a community - BolzanoR (https://www.bolzanor.eu/) - which with the goal to inform about recent developments in R, to openly share knowledge, to create synergies between researchers and to openly disseminate news and activities. In short, to build a local community of R users.
The inherent necessities for a data scientist are reliable, accessible, and well-curated - preferably open - data sources. Here the link to the OpenDataHub Südtirol becomes evident. Researchers and data analysts will greet the datasets hosted by OpenDataHub Südtirol as valuable assets. First, this talk presents the BolzanoR community. Then it imagines future links and activities between BolzanoR and the OpenDatahub Südtirol to value possible synergies and expand upon the existing potentials.
Using Road Sensor Data for Official Statistics: towards a Big Data MethodologyPiet J.H. Daas
This document discusses using road sensor data for official statistics in the Netherlands. It describes challenges around dealing with large volumes of data, creating historical time series, and ensuring accuracy. A statistical process is outlined that cleans, transforms, selects, estimates from and frames the raw road sensor data, which records over 230 million vehicle counts per day. Key steps include selecting only necessary variables from valid data on main routes, putting daily records together, cleaning using recursive Bayesian estimation and a hidden Markov model, and estimating traffic indices from the cleaned data.
ERSA 2017: A linked open data based system for flexible delineation of geogra...Ali Khalili
This document summarizes a linked open data based system for flexible delineation of geographic areas developed by the Semantically Mapping Science (SMS) Platform. The SMS Platform aims to integrate heterogeneous data sources to generate new insights. It develops services for entity recognition, metadata, categories, basic and innovative geospatial analysis, and integration of public, private and open datasets. The platform builds a linked open data space representing administrative boundaries from multiple sources. It extracts, links and enriches geographic data to flexibly define functional geographic areas for analysis. An example use case examines the relationship between innovation projects, socioeconomic variables and hybrid functional areas in the Netherlands.
The document discusses the Austrian open government data portal data.gv.at. As of May 2014, the portal contained 1,228 datasets from 26 publishers, with 236 applications developed using the data and an average of 350 unique visitors per day. The document raises questions about how to achieve sustainable commitment from participating organizations, what strategic partnerships could help increase awareness of open government data outside of the open government community, and how to gain political leadership support needed for sustainable development of open data initiatives in Austria.
The document discusses Austria's national open government data portal called data.gv.at. It aims to have federal, state, and local governments cooperate on common standards for open data to create an effective framework. The goals are to represent interests across levels of government and connect to other open data initiatives. The portal launched in 2012 and plans to expand features like self-administration, dynamic elements, and integrating Austrian datasets into a European catalog while potentially offering paid dataset hosting.
This document compares the distribution of open geospatial data between cities in Japan and other countries. It finds that while Japanese cities provide a limited number and format of open datasets, including geospatial data, cities in the US and EU tend to provide more open data in various formats through platforms like CKAN. Specifically, US cities using Socrata organize data by format and have a relatively high proportion of RDF and geospatial data. The document calls for future research evaluating data usage and introducing civic applications to better achieve open government goals of citizen participation.
02 Plan4all projects in negotiation (Polivisu, Euxdat)plan4all
Two EU projects starting in November 2017 are discussed - PoliVisu and EUXDAT. PoliVisu aims to enhance decision making through big data visualization and collective intelligence. It will pilot large transport changes in Paris and mobility policies/neighborhood development in a mid-sized city. EUXDAT proposes an e-infrastructure to support sustainable agriculture, land monitoring, and energy efficiency for planning through pilots on land management, energy analysis, and 3D farming. Partners for each project are listed.
This document summarizes a presentation on open government data initiatives in Zurich, Switzerland. It discusses Zurich's efforts to implement open data starting in 2012, the challenges faced, and future plans. Specifically, it notes that while Zurich established an open data portal and published over 200 datasets, real impact and use of the data has been limited. Barriers include apathy among data providers and concerns over privacy and legal issues. Moving forward, Zurich aims to expand its open data program through consolidating resources, publishing more datasets by default, upgrading technology, and increasing community engagement through events.
Identification of disaster-affected areas using exploratory visual analysis o...Valentina Cerutti
Presentation of the paper "Identification of disaster-affected areas using exploratory visual analysis of georeferenced Tweets: application to a flood event" at the 19th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science held in Helsinki in June 2016
A Study of the Development and Distribution of Open Geospatial Data in Japane...Toshikazu Seto
This document summarizes a study of open geospatial data development and distribution in Japanese local governments. It finds that over 130 local governments have published open data, with the first being Sabae City in 2012. The number of publishing cities increased rapidly from 2014 onward. Geographic data is primarily distributed for disaster prevention, education, and tourism purposes. While the quantity of open data has increased, the formats remain limited. Further development of applications and studies of data characteristics are needed to better support open data distribution.
Exploratory Analysis of Massive Movement Data (RGS-IBG GIScience Research Gro...Anita Graser
The potential of Big Data for understanding human mobility patterns and other complex phenomena in transportation and movement research is significant. Many contemporary Big Data sources have clear spatiotemporal dimensions. However, Big Spatiotemporal Data is usually messy and presents numerous challenges to researchers and analysts trying to extract information and knowledge. Exploratory data analysis tools for massive movement data are necessary to gain an understanding of our data, its biases and messiness and how they might affect our analyses. This talk presents methods for the exploration of movement patterns in massive quasi-continuous GPS tracking datasets, with examples focusing on international maritime vessel movements.
The document provides a history and overview of infographics. It defines infographics as visual representations of information or data that present complex information quickly and clearly. The origins of infographics date back to cave paintings and early maps, with Florence Nightingale using early infographic charts in 1857 to influence hospital improvements. Modern infographics utilize principles like proximity, similarity, and closure to group related information. They are often research-centric, customizable, attributed to multiple online sources, and used to visualize public data for organizations and campaigns.
EDF2014: Talk of Ioannis Kotsiopoulos, European Dynamics: Semantics – Interop...European Data Forum
Invited Talk of Ioannis Kotsiopoulos, European Dynamics at the European Data Forum 2014, 19 March 2014 in Athens, Greece: Semantics – Interoperability – Integration: A multi-faceted problem
The Swedish national Data Service (SND) were in the original ARIADNE project and learned how to organise and classify their data for both the Portal and their own web service. Able to display map, marker and polygon information now. Use Elasticsearch, AAT and Periodo.
Semantic integration of authoritative and VGIJimena Martínez
This document discusses integrating authoritative and volunteered geographic information using an ontological approach. It presents the problems caused by semantic heterogeneity between different data sources. The proposed approach uses a domain ontology and R2RML mappings to provide a common conceptualization and allow flexible integration of datasets in RDF. Current work is analyzing semantic heterogeneity in OpenStreetMap tags by studying how tags used for real-world features vary over spatial scale and time. Future work includes developing the ontology further and creating a user interface for the R2RML mappings.
This document summarizes the ESSnet Big Data Pilots II project. It discusses:
1) The European strategy for big data and trusted smart statistics, which led to two ESSnet projects - ESSnet Big Data Pilots I and II.
2) The characteristics of ESSnet Big Data Pilots II, which had 28 participants from 23 national statistical institutes. It was coordinated by Statistics Netherlands from 2018-2020.
3) The project was organized into three tracks - implementation pilots, new pilot projects, and preparing for smart statistics - covering domains like online job vacancies, enterprise data, energy usage, and more.
The document reviews the goals and results of the different work
The document outlines a meeting between UTC GIS and THRIVE 2055 to discuss potential partnerships, including UTC's GIS programs and capabilities, current support provided to THRIVE initiatives, and opportunities for future collaboration in areas like integrating scenarios, planning tools, and an information center. The vision discussed creating a regional server network, simulation center, and innovative R&D to support regional planning, applied research, and fulfill UTC's mission as an engaged metropolitan university.
Open AIRE - The use of an Open Science e-Infrastructure for research analysis and impact measurement
Inge Van Nieuwerburgh (Ghent University), Natalia Manola (University of Athens)
Klub Innowacji UW - Centrum rafinacji informacji (cri)UOTT UW
Centrum Rafinacji Informacji Spółka z o.o. offers big data analysis services to provide clients a competitive advantage. They have 8 years of experience and experts in IT, data collection, and analysis. Their services include identifying and collecting relevant information sources, then analyzing large datasets using machine learning and text analysis. Examples shown include oil price forecasting, sentiment analysis of word pairs, topic trends over time, and predictive comparisons to official election results.
Big Data Europe SC6 WS 3: Where we are and are going for Big Data in OpenScie...BigData_Europe
Where we are and are going for Big Data in OpenScience
Keynote talk at the Big Data Europe SC6 Workshop on 11.9.2017 in Amsterdam co-located with SEMANTiCS2017: The perspective of European official statistics by Fernando Reis, Task-Force Big Data, European Commission (Eurostat).
El documento habla sobre una clínica SEO llamada ClinicSEO. Incluye hashtags como #ClinicSEO y menciona a Antonio González y su sitio seoito.es como colaboradores. También proporciona recursos como enlaces y canales de YouTube sobre el uso de Google DataStudio para análisis de datos e informes.
In the Trenches with Accessible EPUB - Charles LaPierre - ebookcraft 2017BookNet Canada
This document discusses standards and best practices for creating accessible EPUB publications. It outlines key standards bodies like the W3C and their relevant specifications. It describes the requirements for EPUB publications to be compliant with accessibility guidelines, including proper use of semantics, alt text, and other techniques. It also discusses certification of EPUB content through initiatives like one led by Benetech that performs in-depth evaluations and provides publishers feedback to improve accessibility. Overall the document provides an overview of the current state of accessible digital publishing.
This document compares the distribution of open geospatial data between cities in Japan and other countries. It finds that while Japanese cities provide a limited number and format of open datasets, including geospatial data, cities in the US and EU tend to provide more open data in various formats through platforms like CKAN. Specifically, US cities using Socrata organize data by format and have a relatively high proportion of RDF and geospatial data. The document calls for future research evaluating data usage and introducing civic applications to better achieve open government goals of citizen participation.
02 Plan4all projects in negotiation (Polivisu, Euxdat)plan4all
Two EU projects starting in November 2017 are discussed - PoliVisu and EUXDAT. PoliVisu aims to enhance decision making through big data visualization and collective intelligence. It will pilot large transport changes in Paris and mobility policies/neighborhood development in a mid-sized city. EUXDAT proposes an e-infrastructure to support sustainable agriculture, land monitoring, and energy efficiency for planning through pilots on land management, energy analysis, and 3D farming. Partners for each project are listed.
This document summarizes a presentation on open government data initiatives in Zurich, Switzerland. It discusses Zurich's efforts to implement open data starting in 2012, the challenges faced, and future plans. Specifically, it notes that while Zurich established an open data portal and published over 200 datasets, real impact and use of the data has been limited. Barriers include apathy among data providers and concerns over privacy and legal issues. Moving forward, Zurich aims to expand its open data program through consolidating resources, publishing more datasets by default, upgrading technology, and increasing community engagement through events.
Identification of disaster-affected areas using exploratory visual analysis o...Valentina Cerutti
Presentation of the paper "Identification of disaster-affected areas using exploratory visual analysis of georeferenced Tweets: application to a flood event" at the 19th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science held in Helsinki in June 2016
A Study of the Development and Distribution of Open Geospatial Data in Japane...Toshikazu Seto
This document summarizes a study of open geospatial data development and distribution in Japanese local governments. It finds that over 130 local governments have published open data, with the first being Sabae City in 2012. The number of publishing cities increased rapidly from 2014 onward. Geographic data is primarily distributed for disaster prevention, education, and tourism purposes. While the quantity of open data has increased, the formats remain limited. Further development of applications and studies of data characteristics are needed to better support open data distribution.
Exploratory Analysis of Massive Movement Data (RGS-IBG GIScience Research Gro...Anita Graser
The potential of Big Data for understanding human mobility patterns and other complex phenomena in transportation and movement research is significant. Many contemporary Big Data sources have clear spatiotemporal dimensions. However, Big Spatiotemporal Data is usually messy and presents numerous challenges to researchers and analysts trying to extract information and knowledge. Exploratory data analysis tools for massive movement data are necessary to gain an understanding of our data, its biases and messiness and how they might affect our analyses. This talk presents methods for the exploration of movement patterns in massive quasi-continuous GPS tracking datasets, with examples focusing on international maritime vessel movements.
The document provides a history and overview of infographics. It defines infographics as visual representations of information or data that present complex information quickly and clearly. The origins of infographics date back to cave paintings and early maps, with Florence Nightingale using early infographic charts in 1857 to influence hospital improvements. Modern infographics utilize principles like proximity, similarity, and closure to group related information. They are often research-centric, customizable, attributed to multiple online sources, and used to visualize public data for organizations and campaigns.
EDF2014: Talk of Ioannis Kotsiopoulos, European Dynamics: Semantics – Interop...European Data Forum
Invited Talk of Ioannis Kotsiopoulos, European Dynamics at the European Data Forum 2014, 19 March 2014 in Athens, Greece: Semantics – Interoperability – Integration: A multi-faceted problem
The Swedish national Data Service (SND) were in the original ARIADNE project and learned how to organise and classify their data for both the Portal and their own web service. Able to display map, marker and polygon information now. Use Elasticsearch, AAT and Periodo.
Semantic integration of authoritative and VGIJimena Martínez
This document discusses integrating authoritative and volunteered geographic information using an ontological approach. It presents the problems caused by semantic heterogeneity between different data sources. The proposed approach uses a domain ontology and R2RML mappings to provide a common conceptualization and allow flexible integration of datasets in RDF. Current work is analyzing semantic heterogeneity in OpenStreetMap tags by studying how tags used for real-world features vary over spatial scale and time. Future work includes developing the ontology further and creating a user interface for the R2RML mappings.
This document summarizes the ESSnet Big Data Pilots II project. It discusses:
1) The European strategy for big data and trusted smart statistics, which led to two ESSnet projects - ESSnet Big Data Pilots I and II.
2) The characteristics of ESSnet Big Data Pilots II, which had 28 participants from 23 national statistical institutes. It was coordinated by Statistics Netherlands from 2018-2020.
3) The project was organized into three tracks - implementation pilots, new pilot projects, and preparing for smart statistics - covering domains like online job vacancies, enterprise data, energy usage, and more.
The document reviews the goals and results of the different work
The document outlines a meeting between UTC GIS and THRIVE 2055 to discuss potential partnerships, including UTC's GIS programs and capabilities, current support provided to THRIVE initiatives, and opportunities for future collaboration in areas like integrating scenarios, planning tools, and an information center. The vision discussed creating a regional server network, simulation center, and innovative R&D to support regional planning, applied research, and fulfill UTC's mission as an engaged metropolitan university.
Open AIRE - The use of an Open Science e-Infrastructure for research analysis and impact measurement
Inge Van Nieuwerburgh (Ghent University), Natalia Manola (University of Athens)
Klub Innowacji UW - Centrum rafinacji informacji (cri)UOTT UW
Centrum Rafinacji Informacji Spółka z o.o. offers big data analysis services to provide clients a competitive advantage. They have 8 years of experience and experts in IT, data collection, and analysis. Their services include identifying and collecting relevant information sources, then analyzing large datasets using machine learning and text analysis. Examples shown include oil price forecasting, sentiment analysis of word pairs, topic trends over time, and predictive comparisons to official election results.
Big Data Europe SC6 WS 3: Where we are and are going for Big Data in OpenScie...BigData_Europe
Where we are and are going for Big Data in OpenScience
Keynote talk at the Big Data Europe SC6 Workshop on 11.9.2017 in Amsterdam co-located with SEMANTiCS2017: The perspective of European official statistics by Fernando Reis, Task-Force Big Data, European Commission (Eurostat).
El documento habla sobre una clínica SEO llamada ClinicSEO. Incluye hashtags como #ClinicSEO y menciona a Antonio González y su sitio seoito.es como colaboradores. También proporciona recursos como enlaces y canales de YouTube sobre el uso de Google DataStudio para análisis de datos e informes.
In the Trenches with Accessible EPUB - Charles LaPierre - ebookcraft 2017BookNet Canada
This document discusses standards and best practices for creating accessible EPUB publications. It outlines key standards bodies like the W3C and their relevant specifications. It describes the requirements for EPUB publications to be compliant with accessibility guidelines, including proper use of semantics, alt text, and other techniques. It also discusses certification of EPUB content through initiatives like one led by Benetech that performs in-depth evaluations and provides publishers feedback to improve accessibility. Overall the document provides an overview of the current state of accessible digital publishing.
The OpenGovIntelligence Consortium is a European Union-funded project running from 2016 to 2019 that is developing software tools to help public organizations create, expand, and exploit linked open statistical data. The consortium is led by the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas and includes research partners in the Netherlands, Ireland, and Estonia as well as commercial partners in Belgium and the UK. The tools are being tested at six pilot sites involving government ministries and agencies in Greece, Lithuania, the UK, Belgium, Ireland, and Estonia.
High Five Conference 2017 Top 25 Takeaways Stan Phelps
High Five is a three-day event in Raleigh, NC. It's the conference where marketers and creatives meet. This presentation shares key takeaways from our 2017 keynotes: Dave Rendall, Marissa Coren, Ashleigh Axios, Shanteka Sigers, Joe Pulizzi, and Tina Roth-Eisenberg.
The Future of Headlines? You'll Never Believe How People Reacted to ClickbaitKatie Steiner
- Question-based headlines led to more negative reactions from audiences compared to traditional headlines. Forward-reference headlines did not significantly change reactions.
- People had more negative expectations of articles following question-based headlines versus traditional headlines. Question-based headlines also slightly decreased anticipated engagement.
- The combination of question-based headlines and more negatively received topics (like Congress) led to the most negative responses. Solutions-focused headlines generally performed better than other styles.
This short document is about a song titled "Ha bün, hogy várok rád" by the artist Unirol Music. The title translates to "If it's a sin, that I'm waiting for you". The document provides the song title and artist but does not include any other details about the song, artist, or content.
Todd Barr is a data bard who works in precision agriculture. Precision agriculture involves using spatial data and analysis to solve agricultural problems. Todd spends most of his time gathering and cleaning data, building models with spatial libraries in R like gstat and geoR, and disseminating results with maps created using leaflet and ggplot. He relies heavily on R's rich set of spatial libraries and packages for his work.
Squeezing Deep Learning Into Mobile PhonesAnirudh Koul
A practical talk by Anirudh Koul aimed at how to run Deep Neural Networks to run on memory and energy constrained devices like smart phones. Highlights some frameworks and best practices.
Twitter gives B2B marketers a powerful opportunity to access broad networks of brands, companies and decision makers on Twitter. Supported by the latest research, we demonstrate why Twitter is not optional and why private and publicly listed brands are missing out on a solid opportunity if they do not incorporate Twitter into their marketing mix.
We demonstrate that Twitter is not optional for brands engaged with B2B marketing. We include the most recent data from multiple leading sources, including The Social Media Examiner, Inc.; Twitter, Inc.; Regalix, Inc. and others.
Twitter provides private and publicly-listed brands an opportunity to engage with broad networks of other brands, firms and key decision makers that also use Twitter. We note that Twitter's active user base is comprised of 250 million plus users and is growing.
When used effectively and in combination with communication strategy and tools, Twitter represents the optimal platform for deploying ongoing messaging. When viewed as a communications hub, Twitter is unrivaled through its ability to integrate other channels and information sources and to coordinate their priority and emphasis. Twitter is effective at relaying information on channels that include Websites, Press releases, Instragram, Facebook, Snapchat, URLs, and any other linkable source of information, and driving traffic to these same sources.
We note that press releases and awareness in general can be difficult for some brands and companies to generate but that Twitter is a proven solution.
Sky Alphabet is a social media marketing agency that utilizes Twitter to achieve growth, awareness and sales objectives through integrated forms of traditional and digital communications driven by Twitter. We understand that Twitter is "not easy" because of its unrelenting requirement for fresh and relevant content, but it is this same requirement that makes Twitter the ideal platform for brands, companies, people and products that are prepared to express themselves through such an advanced channel.
Author: Steve Yanor Aug 2016. @skyalphabet
Research sources: Regalix, Inc. Twitter, Inc. Social Media Examiner, Inc.
The Marketer's Guide To Customer InterviewsGood Funnel
A step-by-step guide on how to doing customer interviews that reveal revenue-boosting insights. This deck is made exclusively for marketers & copywriters.
This document discusses key concepts and principles for organizing a curriculum review at a school. It addresses factors that should guide curriculum choices like mission and vision statements. It also discusses curriculum models and how assessment should inform curriculum planning. Additional topics covered include the importance of transferable skills, 21st century learning skills, and monitoring curriculum implementation through lesson observations and student interviews. The overall purpose is to provide guidance on conducting a thorough and meaningful curriculum review process.
The Be-All, End-All List of Small Business Tax DeductionsWagepoint
Read the full article with even more details at https://blog.wagepoint.com/h/i/289427271-the-comprehensive-list-of-small-business-tax-deductions/185037
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Was ist eine Information Management Compliance Policy, welche Bedeutung hat sie für Corporate Governance? Wie werden relevante Komponenten im Unternehmen identifiziert und welche Rolle kommt den IT-Systemen zuteil? Mehr dazu im Folienvortrag von Dr. Ulrich Kampffmeyer vom 14.02.2006
Agenda:
- Was ist eine Information Management Compliance Policy
- Information Management Compliance Policy im Rahmen der Corporate Governance
- Identifizierung der relevanten Komponenten und Vorgaben im Unternehmen
- Die Rolle der IT-Systeme: Records Management und Enterprise Content Management
- Compliance als kontinuierlicher Prozess
we have consistently been the leading PLC and SCADA service provider for OEM, MNC and local Companies.
We have expert people team for the PLC, SCADA, and Robot Programming division
The Rise of Bots – Talk at GeoBeer #15, March 2017Ralph Straumann
This is a lightning talk about the rise of bots (autonomous computer programs), assistance systems, and conversational user interfaces (CUIs). In it I make the case that a solid taxonomy of bots is needed to further the discussion around bots. I highlight some examples of bots and place them into the taxonomy, and finally propose a gradual differentation within the class of bots that 'emulate humans'.
This lightning talk was held during GeoBeer #15 (www.geobeer.ch) on March 23, 2017 at the offices of EBP (www.ebp.ch) in Zurich, Switzerland.
Enterprise mobility -- Clinching future of businessNisha Patel
Enterprise mobility has become the major topic of interest for organizations in the current trend. 71% of enterprises believe mobility as a top priority. IDC research says that the US mobile worker population may strike to 105.4 million by the 2020.
Don’t forget the UX (when developing a product)eulenherr
The document discusses the importance of user experience (UX) when developing products. It recommends balancing business needs, technology, and users by building simple hypotheses rather than complex theories. Frequent testing with users helps check assumptions against reality. The key is making the user's problem the central focus. UX work can be done by anyone as long as they care about the user perspective.
STATVIEW: a web platform for visualisation and dissemination of statistical d...ALESSANDRO CAPEZZUOLI
STATVIEW represents a useful open source tool that can be conveniently shared among NSOs for analysing, visualising and sharing cartographic data in a machine-readable format.
1) The document discusses linking open data in Ireland and beyond, explaining that open data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone subject to attribution and sharealike requirements.
2) It outlines Ireland's leadership in open data maturity and describes five star levels for making data open, from just publishing it online to fully linking it to other data sources.
3) The document summarizes the European Statistical System network project which involves statistical agencies collaborating to publish statistical data as linked open data in order to engage citizens and prepare for wider adoption of linked open data across Europe.
- swisstopo is the Federal Office of Topography of Switzerland which is legally mandated to develop and manage the country's spatial data infrastructure.
- It maintains a popular geospatial portal, map.geo.admin.ch, which serves over 500 layers to 2 million annual visitors.
- swisstopo began a project in July 2016 to publish key geospatial datasets as linked open data using semantic web standards in order to improve discoverability and reuse of the data by non-experts.
- The first dataset being published is the Administrative Units of Switzerland, with addresses to follow in 2017, available at ld.geo.admin.ch.
Austrian Experience in Building Data Value ChainAnna Fensel
- The document discusses open government data developments in Austria, including data.gv.at, which provides a central portal for Austrian open government data, and the Open Data Vienna Challenge contest, which resulted in around 80 apps being developed using open government data.
- It describes Linked Open Data (LOD) as a global data integration platform and some of the techniques used for data integration, including normalizing vocabularies and resolving entity identifiers.
- The Tourist Map Austria project is presented as a case study that combines open data and services through LOD to provide an integrated tourist information app and booking platform.
Big Data Europe: Workshop 3 SC6 Social Science: THE IMPORTANCE OF METADATA & ...BigData_Europe
Big Data Europe: Workshop 3 SC6 Social Science - 11.09.2017 in Amsterdam, co-located with SEMANTiCS2017 titled: THE IMPORTANCE OF METADATA & BIG DATA IN OPEN SCIENCE. Slides by Ivana Versic (Cessda) and Martin Kaltenböck (SWC)
1) Open data is adding a new dimension to big data analytics and data-driven innovations. Official statistics can more easily reach a wide range of users, like citizens, journalists, and educators, if conveyed through open data.
2) Istat has developed a Linked Open Data portal to make its statistical data openly available in accordance with semantic web standards. This allows for spatial querying of data and federated querying across different data sources.
3) The portal serves as an open data provider, dynamically integrating social platforms to allow discussion around visualizations of census data. An open data dissemination strategy places users at the center by reaching them through different channels and making data easier to access and enrich.
Presentation by Stuart Macdonald of the Edinburgh University Data Library at the Graduate School of Social and Political Science Induction, 15 and 16 Septeber, 2011, University of Edinburgh
The document discusses the Swiss Federal Statistical Office's efforts to publish government statistical data as semantic data and linked data. It provides an overview of the office's mandate and data holdings. It then outlines the office's prototype linked data platform, which uses semantic web standards like RDF, SPARQL, and JSON-LD to publish data from the 2011 Census. Examples are shown of querying and visualizing the data through the platform. The benefits of the semantic approach are discussed, such as enabling federated querying and reducing ETL costs, as well as next steps like expanding data coverage.
The document discusses the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) which provides a national service in the UK to support research projects using consumer data. It notes that the UK government has invested £73 million in big data and such data could benefit the economy by £216 billion and create 58,000 jobs. The CDRC works with partners to conduct research using large datasets on topics like urban mobility patterns, ethical consumption, health lifestyles, and obesity. It provides access to various data sources and aims to facilitate collaborative projects and interdisciplinary research. A key focus is a proof-of-concept demonstrator for obesity research using big data on the student population in Leeds.
Tracey P. Lauriault (Programmable City team)
A genealogy of open data assemblages
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Time Duration Session
18:30 – 18:40 00:10 Welcome address
Christine Kormann (Eurostat)
18:40 - 18:50 00:10 The OpenGovIntelligence Project
Evangelos Kalampokis (University of Macedonia)
18:50 – 19:05 00:15 LOD in the ESS: initiatives, enablers and challenges - a PwC study
for Eurostat
Nikolaos Loutas (PwC)
19:05 – 19:20 00:15 The use of Linked Open Statistical Data in the Flemish Government
Paul Hermans (ProXML)
19:20 – 19:30 00:10 OpenGovIntelligence Tools
Bill Roberts (Swirrl)
19:30 – 20:30 00:60 Hands-on evaluation of the tools
Agenda Overview
3. 313-17 March 2017, BrusselsNTTS 2017
Time Duration Session
18:30 – 18:40 00:10 Welcome address
Christine Kormann (Eurostat)
18:40 - 18:50 00:10 The OpenGovIntelligence Project
Evangelos Kalampokis (University of Macedonia)
18:50 – 19:05 00:15 LOD in the ESS: initiatives, enablers and challenges - a PwC study
for Eurostat
Nikolaos Loutas (PwC)
19:05 – 19:20 00:15 The use of Linked Open Statistical Data in the Flemish Government
Paul Hermans (ProXML)
19:20 – 19:30 00:10 OpenGovIntelligence Tools
Bill Roberts (Swirrl)
19:30 – 20:30 00:60 Hands-on evaluation of the tools
Agenda Overview
4. 413-17 March 2017, BrusselsNTTS 2017
Time Duration Session
18:30 – 18:40 00:10 Welcome address
Christine Kormann (Eurostat)
18:40 - 18:50 00:10 The OpenGovIntelligence Project
Evangelos Kalampokis (University of Macedonia)
18:50 – 19:05 00:15 LOD in the ESS: initiatives, enablers and challenges - a PwC study
for Eurostat
Nikolaos Loutas (PwC)
19:05 – 19:20 00:15 The use of Linked Open Statistical Data in the Flemish Government
Paul Hermans (ProXML)
19:20 – 19:30 00:10 OpenGovIntelligence Tools
Bill Roberts (Swirrl)
19:30 – 20:30 00:60 Hands-on evaluation of the tools
Agenda Overview
7. 713-17 March 2017, BrusselsNTTS 2017
§ Public administration publishes Open Data in an ad-hoc manner based on
existing processes, according to their mandate, and often under unclear
licenses. They also design and deliver services in a top-down manner.
§ On the other hand, society has needs and data-driven public services, not
raw data, can address these needs.
§ As a result, society should be involved in service co-production to ensure
that public services address their needs.
Motivation – Open Data
9. 913-17 March 2017, BrusselsNTTS 2017
§ Open Statistical Data are
fragmented
§ Searching data.gov.uk for
“unemployment” datasets:
§ 122 results (links and files)
§ These results provide access to
56 files and 610 links
§ These links lead to 18 other
portals
§ Through them to more than
2000 other files
Motivation – Fragmentation
E. Kalampokis, E. Tambouris, A. Karamanou, K. Tarabanis (2016) Open Statistics: The Rise of a new Era for Open Data?, EGOV2016, LNCS 9820, pp.31-43, Springer.
10. 1013-17 March 2017, BrusselsNTTS 2017
§ All these web portals provide
complementary views of the
unemployment data.
§ For example, focusing on geo
dimension:
§ Data about unemployment in
different administrative levels in the
UK.
§ ONS, NOMIS, NeSS and Open Data
Communities provide data about the
whole country.
§ Local government portals provide
data for specific areas (e.g.
Warwickshire, Cambridgeshire)
Motivation – Complementarity
Level 0 UK ONS
Level 1 Countries ONS
Level 2 Regions ONS, NOMIS, NeSS,
Level 3 Counties NOMIS
Level 4 Districts/Boroughs/Divisions ODC
Level 5 Local Enterprise Parttnership ONS, NOMIS
Level 6 Local Authorities/Communities
First Areas
ONS, NOMIS, NeSS
Level 7 Parliamentary Constituencies ONS, NOMIS
Level 8 Wards Warkwickshire,
Cambridgeshire
Level 9 Market Towns Cambridgeshire
Level 10 Super Output Area Warkwickshire
Level 11 Super Output Area Middle Layer NeSS
Level 12 Super Output Area Lower Layer NeSS
Level 13 Output Area NeSS
Level 14 Parishes Cambridgeshire
12. 1213-17 March 2017, BrusselsNTTS 2017
LOSD Innovation Ecosystem
Data Provider Public Service Provider Service Consumer
PAs Provision of Open
Government Data
Design and deliver of public
service
Provide public services
In policy making and/or
internal decision making
Businesses Business data (private) to be
used in services
Co-design and/or co-deliver
of public service
In business intelligence,
decision making etc.
Citizens/
NGOs
Citizen provided data Co-design and/or co-deliver
of public service
Information provision,
transparency etc.
19. 1913-17 March 2017, BrusselsNTTS 2017
Time Duration Session
18:30 – 18:40 00:10 Welcome address
Christine Kormann (Eurostat)
18:40 - 18:50 00:10 The OpenGovIntelligence Project
Evangelos Kalampokis (University of Macedonia)
18:50 – 19:05 00:15 LOD in the ESS: initiatives, enablers and challenges - a PwC study
for Eurostat
Nikolaos Loutas (PwC)
19:05 – 19:20 00:15 The use of Linked Open Statistical Data in the Flemish Government
Paul Hermans (ProXML)
19:20 – 19:30 00:10 OpenGovIntelligence Tools
Bill Roberts (Swirrl)
19:30 – 20:30 00:60 Hands-on evaluation of the tools
Agenda Overview
20. LOD in the ESS: initiatives,
enablers and challenges - a
PwC study for Eurostat
www.pwc.be
NTTS 2017 - Hands-on workshop on
Linked Open Statistical Data
Brussels, 17 March 2017
Nikolaos Loutas
PwC Data & Analytics
21. PwC
Outline
• Scope and approach of the study
• LOD initiatives in the ESS
• Value propositions and benefits
• Statistical LOD customer segments
• Key resources for implementing statistical LOD
• Means of dissemination
• Costs
• Enablers and good practices
• Roadblocks and challenges
2
23. PwC
LOD initiatives in the ESS
4
Central Statistics
Office (CSO)
Institut national
de la statistique et
des études
économiques
(INSEE)
Office for National
Statistics (ONS)
Statistics Scotland
Federal Statistical
Office (FSO)
Istituto nazionale
di statistica
(ISTAT)
24. PwC
• Interconnect several official statistics datasets (covering
both data and metadata) housed in different databases, data stores
and data warehouses within a NSI.
• Interconnect several official statistics datasets (covering
both data and metadata) housed in different databases, data stores
and data warehouses of different NSIs and/or Eurostat.
• Publish official statistics in a linkable, machine-readable format,
which can easily be reused and integrated with other types of data,
e.g. geospatial, weather, etc.
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Why are NSIs using LOD
1
2
3
25. PwC
A selection of statistical LOD use cases
• LOD for territorial bases
(ISTAT, Italy)
• Selecting the best place to
live or to invest (Maynooth
University)
• LOD for fact-checking
• Finding data for a postcode
(ONS Geography)
• Accessing and querying census
data (CSO, Ireland)
• Evolution of Swiss communes
(FSO, Switzerland)
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• Scottish Index of Multiple
Deprivation (Scottish
Government)
• Relate/correlate different
sources which provide
information about a specific
domain (Evangelos
Kalampokis)
• Providing catalogues of
linked metadata of open
datasets (EU Open Data
Portal and European Data
Portal)
• ModernStats - Linked Open
Metadata (UNECE)
• Integrated access to EU
and BEA data (Eurostat and
BEA)
• Digital Agenda Scoreboard
(DG CONNECT)
1 2 3
Interconnect datasets
within a NSI
Interconnect official
statistics datasets from
different NSIs and/or
Eurostat
Publish official statistics in
machine-readable, linkable
formats
26. PwC
LOD value propositions & benefits
National Statistical
Institutes
Having a unified view over
data, thanks to easier integration;
More flexible means of data
dissemination and wider
outreach;
Increased standardisation,
interoperability and
collaboration opportunities;
Easier to innovate and evolve;
Cost reductions, collect and
publish once, reuse many times.
Data reusers
Using the right data at the right
time in the right format;
Better understanding of the
data as the data and the model are
closely interwoven;
Increased trust, thanks to
traceability and provenance;
Easier integration with other
data from various domains;
Enhanced data exploration by
navigating the links;
Innovation.
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27. PwC
Statistical LOD customer segments
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Businesses
Public
administrations
NGOs
NSIs and
Eurostat
Data
journalists
Academia and
researchers
Citizens
28. PwC
Key resources for implementing statistical LOD
Technology &
Infrastructure
Building blocks frequently
used:
• Data preparation
• SPARQL endpoint
• LOD portal
• JSON-stat API
• REST API
• Data browsers
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Web standards, such as HTTP URIs and RDF
Data standards, such as SDMX, RDF Data Cube and StatDCAT-AP.
Data &
Metadata
Skill may be available in house, outsourced or a combination of both.
• Technical skills (e.g. PHP, JAVA, data management, data quality)
• LOD knowledge (e.g. LOD principles, standards and technologies)
• Communication and promotion (e.g. people able to communicate
the why and get buy-in)
• Statistical knowledge
People &
Capabilities
Linked Data
Governance
Define overall priorities with respect to the main value proposition
Performing common analysis and on-going evaluation
Data licensing: most common licence is Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
URI policy: to guarantee persistence, resolvability, and uniformity of Web
identifiers.
29. PwC
Key resources for implementing statistical LOD
Key partners
11
Industry Outsourcing technical development, consultancy
Academia
Knowledge and expertise sharing, common projects, tools
development
Key activities
Requirements Pre-implementation analysis, on-going evaluation
Development
Selection of data, creation of tools to transform, link,
publish and visualise data
Maintenance Governance, management, user support
Promotion Communication and publicity
30. PwC
Means of statistical LOD dissemination
Channels
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NSIs portals Browser-based access to LOD, e.g. intuitive link navigation
Endpoint/API SPARQL, REST, URI dereferencing
Mobile Apps
Customer relationships
Contests Hackathons, app contests, prizes
Feedback Customer support, CRM
31. PwC
LOD cost structure
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Development
Subcontracting creation of tools
In-house development
Maintenance
Technical maintenance, only limited as in most cases LOD is in
pilot phase
Promotion Communication and publicity, contests, prizes
Licensing Licensing for LOD tools in case open source solutions are not used
32. PwC
Enablers and good practices for implementing
statistical LOD
• Flexible way of integrating data, with
minimum impact on current infrastructure
• Allows to access data at different levels of
granularity – from data points to datasets
• Promotes the need for data standardisation
• Opportunities for new data-enabled services
• Ease of data navigation via browsing the
links (URIs)
• Ease of model updates because of the
flexibility of RDF
• Emerging best practice guidance
• Creates partnerships between public
administration, academia, standards
organisations and industry
• Identify clear use cases, target users and
benefits
• Start small, think big
• Use a trial and error approach with well-
defined iterations
• Look for support and knowledge from the
community and collaborate
• Rely on standards for data and metadata –
contribute to standardisation discussions
• Provide different ways of accessing the data,
from APIs to visual interfaces, to cater for
different types of users
• Provide persistent URIs and open licensing
• Measure the use and the expected benefits
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Enablers Good practices
33. PwC
Roadblocks and challenges for implementing
statistical LOD
• Low awareness within the ESS of the technology and its benefits
• Insufficient promotion of success stories and implemented use cases
• Perceived lack of users’ demand for LOD
• Lack of management buy-in and support
• Organisational resistance because of changes in dissemination of official
statistics (new technology, new data formats, new data standards…)
• Perceived scarcity of necessary skills and competencies in the ESS,
combined with limited training opportunities and resources
• Proliferation of so-called standards . The ESS is not partaking in the
development of standards for LOD in statistics
• Very limited collaboration and knowledge sharing between NSIs in
statistical LOD
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34. PwC
Get in touch with us to know more
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Nikolaos Loutas
nikolaos.loutas@be.pwc.com
Daniel Brulé
daniel.brule@be.pwc.com
This publication has been prepared by PwC EU Services and is reporting on a study delivered for Eurostat under DI07171 specific contract 353.
“PwC” refers to PwC Enterprise Advisory bvba which is a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, each member firm of
which is a separate legal entity.
Eurostat Project Officer: Christine.Kormann@ec.europa.eu
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Christine Kormann (Eurostat)
18:40 - 18:50 00:10 The OpenGovIntelligence Project
Evangelos Kalampokis (University of Macedonia)
18:50 – 19:05 00:15 LOD in the ESS: initiatives, enablers and challenges - a PwC study
for Eurostat
Nikolaos Loutas (PwC)
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Paul Hermans (ProXML)
19:20 – 19:30 00:10 OpenGovIntelligence Tools
Bill Roberts (Swirrl)
19:30 – 20:30 00:60 Hands-on evaluation of the tools
Agenda Overview
38. 2313-17 March 2017, BrusselsNTTS 2017
§ Supporting decision making on environmental permits and
inspections
§ As a citizen I would like to know which emissions are happening in our/a
neighborhood.
§ As a civil servant I want to know the already reported emissions in a
neighborhood to evaluate new emission permit requests for that same area
and plan emission inspection based on previous reporting to enhance
efficiency.
§ As a company I want to compare my emission values with similar companies.
Objective
44. 2913-17 March 2017, BrusselsNTTS 2017
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18:30 – 18:40 00:10 Welcome address
Christine Kormann (Eurostat)
18:40 - 18:50 00:10 The OpenGovIntelligence Project
Evangelos Kalampokis (University of Macedonia)
18:50 – 19:05 00:15 LOD in the ESS: initiatives, enablers and challenges - a PwC study
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19:20 – 19:30 00:10 OpenGovIntelligence Tools
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19:30 – 20:30 00:60 Hands-on evaluation of the tools
Agenda Overview
58. 4313-17 March 2017, BrusselsNTTS 2017
GET table
Parameters: col (required), row (required), measure (required), locked dimensions (optional)
Sample result:
JSON qb API - data
{"structure":{
"free_dimensions":{
"timePeriod":{"@id":"http://example.com#timePeriod","label": "Time Period"},
"refArea":{"@id":"http://example.com#refArea","label":"Reference Area"}},
"locked_dimensions":{
"sex":{"@id":"http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#sex","label":"sex",
"lockedValue":{"@id":"http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/code#sex-F","label":"sex-F"}}},
"dimension_values":{
"refArea":{
"S12000033":{"@id":"http://statistics.gov.scot/S12000033","label":"Aberdeen City“},
"S12000034":{"@id":"http://statistics.gov.scot/S12000034","label":"Aberdeenshire“}…},
"timePeriod":{
"year2004":{"@id":"http://example.com/concept/year2004#id","label":"2004"},
"year2005":{"@id":"http://example.com/concept/year2005#id","label":"2005"}…}}},
"headers":{"columns":{"refArea":["S12000033","S12000034“,..."]},
"rows":{"timePeriod":["year2004", "year2005",..."]}},
"data":[[73.4,79.6, ...], [76.6,78.8]]}
Τable representation of the cube’s
observations that match to particular criteria
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