Open data overload:yorkopendata and #localdata15
This post has been automatically created from a feed, and was originally published at: http://digidickinson.net/2015/04/22/open-data-overloadyorkopendata-and-localdata15/ For the last week it’s feels...
View ArticleOpen data: What can we expect from the conservatives?
We have a conservative government in the UK for the next five years. I’ve been looking at open data a lot for some research that I’m doing so I wanted to cast a proper eye over their manifesto to...
View ArticleThe connected middle class: Ofcom and civic internet use
OFCOM have released their Adults’ media use and attitudes report for 2015. It’s a report that is always worth a read through. This is the ten year anniversary edition with a good deal of the content...
View ArticleHyperlocal. open data. journalism conference: If you’ll come, I’ll build it.
Update: I’ve decided on dates. 6th and 7th of November 2015 in Preston. If you’re interested you can tell me what you’d like to see through a quick survey. As part of my current research activity into...
View Article#HLDJ Conference 6th and 7th November 2015
This post was created automatically from a feed, and was originally published at: http://digidickinson.net/2015/06/22/hldj-conference-6th-and-7th-november-2015/ This isn’t meant to be a conference...
View ArticleOpen data and rent-seeking economies
Yesterday, I was introduced to a concept I hadn’t heard of before – rent seeking behaviour. Its an economics term that essentially means that instead of investing time developing things that you can...
View ArticleHow open is Data Journalism?
Where does data journalism get its data? In a brown envelope or mysterious memory stick From freedom of information requests From free (open) government data sources Some will collect their own via the...
View ArticleMedia Mill: Open data newsletter and slides
You may have noticed that I’ve been posting about Open Data a lot recently. It’s mainly because of a project that I’m working on as a researcher called Media Mill. One of the things I’ve been doing is...
View Article#Opendata and why PDF’s are useful.
Over the weekend James Arthur Cattell (doer of open data andOrganiser of@UKGovCamp, @ODCamp) posed a question: Continue reading on Medium »
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