Insight & Entertainment

from Open Data

Monday 2 November 2015jonathan stoneman @stonepeople

Introductions

By the end of this session you will

Have some ideas about how
to interrogate a dataset and
find patterns
Know where you could find
data especially on arts &
entertainment

FINDING INTERESTING
PATTERNS STORIES

Data contains following

id (unique ref no.)

name
gender
dates of birth/death
century of activity
place of birth, place of death

What could you look

for? id (unique ref no.)

name
gender
dates of birth/death
century of activity
place of birth, place of death

They came to the UK

Another view

FINDING RELIABLE DATA

SOURCES

Finding open data

Government data: eg
www.data.gov.uk and
www.data.gov

Google advanced search

Data.gov.uk

To find tate.csv
site:github.com inurl: tate art

Google

site:gov.uk ....ac.uk, edu, gov, br, fr, de, ba....

site:gov.uk ....ac.uk, edu, gov, br, fr, de, ba....

filetype:xls....csv, (also doc, ppt, pdf)

site:gov.uk ....ac.uk, edu, gov, br, fr, de, ba....

filetype:xls....csv, (also doc, ppt, pdf)
inurl:....eg public, upload, 2015, inspection,
report, dashboard, data....

WHAT NEXT FOR YOU?

What next?
Ask yourself, and make a note
Following this session, what do you
want to do with Open Data?
What sources might you use?
What training/reading might you need?

Theodi.org/courses
Open Data in a Day
Open Data Science
Open Data for Smart Cities
Winning Business with Open Data
Finding Stories in Open Data
Open Data in Practice
And .

Further reading
Blastland The Tiger That Isnt
Bradshaw Datajournalism Heist*
Bradshaw Scraping for Journalists*
Rogers Facts Are Sacred*
Yau Visualize This
Tufte The Visual Display of
Quantitative Information

*=e-book only