Basic guide to help non-developers get, use and share open data, including e.g.:

  • Open source GUI tools for exploring, analysing and visually representing open datasets
  • Online tools for scraping and cleaning up datasets
  • Information about how to find and request datasets
  • Information about how to republish datasets so that others can reuse them

submitted 21 Mar '11, 22:15

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These suggestions seem to be useful extensions to the Open Data Manual

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solved 27 Apr '11, 01:11

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I think this should definitely go into Open Data Manual. Wonder if this sort of thing wants to go in a section called recipes or howtos.

(17 May '11, 03:48) rgrp ♦♦

Given booting of http://datapatterns.org suggest this now be part of that (see answer below which should be upvoted).

(18 Nov '11, 09:04) rgrp ♦♦

This post contains lots of useful links:

Also there is lots of useful stuff on:

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This is also something I'm trying to do bits of with http://www.opendatacookbook.net - it's set up as a wiki project and open to contributions / critique / complete reshaping - but the cook book metaphor was adopted (with no connection to the O'Reilly tech cook book notion) and is being stretched somewhat in it to really try and create something non-threatening and friendly to the non-geek.

If a wider group wanted to adopt / extend the cook book then I'd be up for that potentially...

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datapatterns.org is a fledgling, extremely useful site.

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solved 16 Aug '11, 23:57

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Focusing on "Open source GUI tools for exploring, analysing and visually representing open datasets", perhaps the OKFN could think about forking SOFA Statistics and providing an interface with CKAN & its datastores?

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Yesterday a student asked me if I can do the internship with me. I proposed several ideas, including the integration of CKAN and Sofa. He has chosen to engage in this activity. I invite him to follow this thread.

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