2010 will be remembered as the year open data went worldwide. Sir Tim Berners-Lee believe it and so do I. In this short TED talk Berners-Lee talks about Haiti, yes, but also about data effect things.
Newspapers and online media *can* lead the process of putting all that public data into nice visualization schemes and useful interactive mashups — if they hurry. Or the people — bloggers, social media gurus, corporations, governments and non-profit organizations themselves — will do it, replacing that historical journalistic roll of gathering, filtering and presenting, you know, news.
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An excerpt:
Does this data effect things? Well actually let’s get back to 2008. Look at Zanesville, Ohio. Here is a map a lawyer made, put on at the water plant, seeing which houses are there, which houses have been connected to the water? And he got, from other data sources, information to show which houses are occupied by white people. Well, there was too much of a correlation, he felt, between which houses were occupied by white people and which houses had water, and the judge was not impressed either. The judge was not impressed to the tune of 10.9 million dollars. That’s the power of taking one piece of data, another piece of data, putting it together, and showing the result
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Don’t lose the first TED Talk by Tim Berners-Lee about data. It was a year ago, data.gov was nothing but an intention and data.gov.uk wasn’t even a dream.
See it on TED, or here:
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Hello, my name is Paulo Querido. I'm a 49 year old portuguese journalist and writer. Did almost everything in newspapers and wrote a lot about technology and networking. Now I prefer to code and teach. Join this conversation about new skills that improve journalism in a world totally full of data, as well as the effects of openness of information and governance around the world.