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Overview: open data, open source and transparency advocacy
  • LittleSis: "a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government"
  • OpenCorporates: "The Open Database Of The Corporate World"
  • Open Knowledge Foundation: "... create standards like the Open Definition, organize events like Open Government Data Camp, run projects like Where Does My Money Go and and develop tools to help people create, find and share open material"
  • CorpWatch API: "[automated extraction of the] relationship information from ... SEC and provides a free, well-structured interface for programs to query and process the data."
  • Farmsubsidies.org: "Explore European Common Agricultural Policy farm subsidy payments"
  • theyrule.net: "aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class. It takes as its focus the boards of some of the most powerful U.S. companies, which share many of the same directors."
  • Sunlight Foundation: "Making government transparent and accountable by focusing on the digitization of government data and the creation of tools and web sites."

Open movement Open source/free software movement: free as in free speech Open access journals Open data movement (open hardware, consumer rights)

Data-journalism

Advocacy-driven

Dig data analsysis, BI

Linked data/semantic web

Tools for analysis

  • graph databases, NoSQL
  • analsysis, SRL, etc. [Hazy, ...]

Datajournalism: Guardian Datablog Wikileaks analysis

Aaron Schwartz

Conferences

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