Vous François Bancilhon from Paris ? L'open data gagne la France. Untitled from Jean Michel Billaut on Vimeo. François est un jeune startuppeur et s'intéresse à "l'open data". De quoi s'agit-il ? Simple : publier les données administratives récoltées et constituées par nos diverses administrations/institutions avec l'argent de nos impôts.
Motivations ? Il ouvre une plateforme dénommée "data publica", dont l'objectif est de fournir un annuaire des données publiques françaises. Ainsi naturellement que les dites données... Comment utiliser ces données ? Y a-t-il eu des problèmes avec les administrations pour recueillir "leurs" données ? Quel sera le business model de Data Publica ? Situation de l'open data dans le Monde ? Sur la base de ces données, une startup veut créer un service payant pour les utilisateurs. Pour contacter François Bancilhon : francois.bancilhon(arobase)gmail.com © Une production du Billautshow - the video for the rest of us - the e-billautshow : the french worldwide hub. Your Neighborhood Data Visualized: Startup Builds Census Map Block by Block. The 2010 US Census has begun publishing its detailed demographic data state by state and the race now begins to see which data geeks can do the coolest things with the information.
Remember when large-scale social data was only collected once a decade? When terms like "social graph" and "interest graph" didn't even exist? It turns out that old fashioned data still has a lot to teach us. One company has already launched its first block-by-block, state-wide data visualization site for New Jersey census data. MoonShadow Mobile specializes in working with large datasets and making them easy to navigate around in quickly. MoonShadow makes its living selling similar software to public agencies and others interested in drawing redistricting lines or in municipal planning.
Other data visualization projects built on the US Census include a less granular but more visually dazzling effort from well-known data desingers Stamen Design. Bring on the census visualizations, folks. How Open Data Initiatives Can Improve City Life. Major city governments across North America are looking for ways to share civic data — which normally resides behind secure firewalls — with private developers who can leverage it to serve city residents via web and mobile apps. Cities can spend on average between $20,000 and $50,000 — even as much as $100,000 — to cover the costs of opening data, but that's a small price to pay when you consider how much is needed to develop a custom application that might not be nearly as useful. Here are a few examples of initiatives that are striving to make city governments more efficient and transparent through open data. 1.
Apps4Ottawa - Ottawa, Quebec Careful to adhere to security and privacy regulations for their open data program, the City of Ottawa started sharing data in several areas: geo-spatial (roadways, parks, runways, rivers, and ward boundaries); recreation facilities; event planning; civic elections data; and transit, including schedules. 2. CivicApps.org - Portland, Oregon 3. 4. 5. City Of Paris Opens Up Its Data. Open Data: Empowering the Empowered or Effective Data Use for Everyone? » Article » OWNI.eu, Digital Journalism. The open data movement in the area of access to public (and other) information is a relatively new but very significant, and potentially powerful, emerging force. It has now been widely endorsed by among others Tim Berners-Lee generally acknowledged as the Father of the World Wide Web.
The overall intention is to make local, regional and national data (and particularly publicly acquired data) available in a form that allows for direct manipulation using software tools as for example, for the purposes of cross-tabulation, visualization, mapping and so on. The underlying idea is that public (and other) data, whether collected directly as part of census collection or indirectly as a secondary output of other activities (crime or accident statistics for example) should be available in electronic form and accessible via the web. There are significant initiatives in this area underway in the US , the UK and Canada among many many other jurisdictions. Tim Berners-Lee.