Europe-wide data
The European Data portal has now passed from Beta to permanence. You can now use it to quickly find news and the latest open data from EU nations. It includes 13 browsable categories ranging from health to cities. There is also a data training companion. Also growing is the broader OpenAire website which now has […]
Data centres for researchers
The Economic and Social Research Council are funding three data centres – the Consumer Data Research Centre https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/ the Urban Big Data Centre at University of Glasgow Business and Local Government Data Research Centre at the University of Essex. Please feel free to explore them and use them in your research.
More data portals
Open Data Inception has mapped over 1600 open data portals around the world. Hover over the maps to get statistics on different nations. Then zoom in on individual areas to get direct links to individual websites. Some are national, some regional or local government.
European Data Portal
Launched this month, a new resource developed by the European Commission offering free access to over 240,000 datasets from 28 European Nations. These are harvested from open government data from EU nations websites. It is possible to search or browse by category, records give source information, URLs and license terms. Datasets can often be exported […]
Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences
A new free open access journal from Brill and a number of research institutes based in the Netherlands seeks to highlight research based on data. All articles focus upon methods and associated datasets are stored in DANS Materials are in English and Dutch. The first issue has content on socio-economic history.
A data revolution for all?
The UN Secretary-General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on a Data Revolution for Sustainable Development has just published a report called a World that Counts . This considers the nature and future implication of data inequality between ‘developed’ and ‘developing nations.’ For some great examples of open data initiatives try: UNdata EU Open data portal Open […]
The Data Journalism Handbook
http://datajournalismhandbook.org/ A free, open-source reference book written after a 48-hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in London. Also available in the library at 070.40285 DAT.
Visualising Information for Advocacy
https://visualisingadvocacy.org/resources/visualisationtools Based on a book written by Stephanie Hankey, Tom Longley, Marek Tuszynski and Maya Indira Ganesh, this site offers advice for activists/ journalists on using common data visualization tools in their work. Look at the tools section for practical advice on combining and integrating data, displaying case studies over time and presenting and modifying […]
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