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Open Data in Lincoln

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Andrew Beeken has blogged on how he set up a very simple WordPress blog to start the process of opening up data at Lincoln. As he explains, he’s going to be publicising it in Lincoln and will report back on the reaction it gets. Andrew’s data.lincoln.gov.uk site sets a good example of just how it’s [...]

April 22nd, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham|0 Comments

Local data and the Data.gov.uk site

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In January the data.gov.uk site was launched at an event at the Guardian’s headquarters in London. For the unitiated, this site is the government’s attemp, under the guidance of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, to take data that is in the hands of the government and make it available [...]

March 1st, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inData,Local democracy|0 Comments

Visualising data for a transparent government

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Have you seen the big blue bubbles on pages in the Guardian, a wordle of President Obama’s inauguration speech, or a Googlemap of all the roadworks in your area? Presenting data in new and interesting ways is the trend du jour. We live in a data driven world, so being able to see complicated information [...]

October 15th, 2009 | by hrwaldram | Posted inLocal democracy|0 Comments

The value of data, a tale of Birmingham parking tickets.

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Through the Help Me Investigate site , I came across an investigation regarding parking tickets, with the aim to find the most ticketed street in Birmingham in FY09.  It sounded interesting, and I was delighted to see a FOI request from Heather Brooke (here it is on What Do They Know) Data, it’s a rather [...]

July 25th, 2009 | by rasga | Posted inBirmingham,Data,Mashups|9 Comments