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Streetscapes
Kai Biermann and his team at ZEIT ONLINE were nominated in the shortlist of the Data Journalism Awards in the category data visualisation of the year 2018 with their project Streetscapes. Their idea is based on an interactive map visualising the names of squares and streets - not just their current names but all names the square or street was named throughout history. Conventional map tools would not allow for that feature so the team at ZEIT ONLINE programmed a searchable database allowing to analyse and visualise the patters in the distribution of the 450,000 names. "Streets and squares are
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Top 50 Smart City Governments
Smart city initiatives are gaining more and more recognition. Eden Strategy Institute and ONG&ONG (OXD) just published a ranking of the Top 50 Smart City Governments, selected from over 140 cities globally. Five EU member states are within the top 20 with London, Helsinki and Barcelona being in the top ten. Performance in ten categories contributed to the overall ranking. The categories are: Vision: A clear and well-defined strategy to develop a "smart city" Leadership: Dedicated City leadership that steers smart city projects Budget: Sufficient funding for smart city projects Financial
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Open Data reveals talent
In Tennis, every move, every point is being tracked. But none of it is made accessible in a machine readable way. The project 20 years, 20 Titels analyses all available data from the last 20+ years of tennis, including all matches ever played by Roger Federer. The study reveals how he became the best tennis player of all time. The project makes all analysed data, the used code, the results and the making of openly available. The approach of the project is rare in data journalism. By making it understandable by non-data and non-tennis experts, the results gained international recognition and
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The Open Revolution
The new book by Rufus Pollock The Open Revolution emphasises the need to open up data and increase awareness for the concept of publicly available information. In his book he discusses digital democracy and the question of ownership of digital information. Data has become a prerequisite to our daily processes affecting public, businesses, politics and culture. Digital information can be distributed easily and swiftly, which makes control more vital. To protect (private) data is one measurement of control. However, it does not target data monopolies which keep vast valuable data locked up
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Open data improves developing economies
More and more studies are evaluating the impact and value of Open Data. However, there is not much known about the possible contributions of Open Data to economic and social development in developing countries. There is a growing enthusiasm for Open Data in developing economies, raising questions about the role of Open Data in fostering development. The study Open Data in Developing Economies: Toward Building an Evidence Base on What Works and How by Stefaan Verhulst and Andrew Young features in-depth case studies on how Open Data is having an impact across the developing world. The study
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Open Data for biodiversity
AQUACROSS is a Horizon 2020 project that aims to support EU efforts to protect aquatic biodiversity. The AQUACROSS information platform provides open access to a wide range of aquatic data like information on freshwater, marine and coastal ecosystems and biodiversity management at the European Level. The primary focus is on data used in project case studies and work packages, as well as resulting maps, model outputs and tools. Using CKAN the platform currently contains 533 datasets. Visit the AQUACROSS project's platform or read more about the AQUACROSS project.
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Official Open Data Kick-Off in Germany
Starting today, 13 July 2018, the Federal Open Data Act is enacted and bounds authorities of the federal administration to publish selected datasets as Open Data. The Federal Open Data Act is intended to make better use of the manifold data resources of the public administration. A handbook for open administrative data, designed as a living document, provides theoretical basic knowledge with practice-oriented recommendations for action and procedural models for the efficient introduction of Open Data in public authorities. The aim is to enable and encourage individuals and businesses to gain
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Industry and academia join forces and launch an open access website
The absence of trustworthy data is an obstacle for researchers in their search for new treatments. To address this lack of accessible knowledge, a group of pharmaceutical companies, universities, hospitals and research organisations joined forces to make relevant information available to the research community. With partial funding from the EU, the partners have launched the data portal Open Science Probes. The data available are chemical probes that are particularly useful for chemical biologists researching on drug discovery. Read more about the published data on eLife Science or visit Open
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Open Data course for journalists and reporters
The Storylab Academy, supported by the World Bank Group, Code for Africa and Google News Lab offers a digital journalism course. Two of the courses specifically target Open Data. The lessons focus on topics like: Data acquisition and cleaning Data analysis Telling stories with data Doing more with Open Data Engaging citizens and readers Licence and policy issues The courses are free, open for everyone and not only suited for data journalists. In addition to the online content, the Storylab Academy also offers on site events like the newsroom visits, hacks and story sprints. Visit the Storylab
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2018 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) with the support of the Swedish Research Council launched the 2018 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge. The challenge honours Dr. Ebbe Nilsen, a principal founder of GBIF and will award up to 34,000 Euro in prizes to the most innovative applications. Entries have to rely on open biodiversity data or open-source tools from the GBIF network to advance open science. Eligible initiatives can be new applications, visualizations, methods, workflows, analyses, tools and techniques that improve the access, usefulness and quality of open biodiversity data. The