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Apologies for the late mail out. The internet in South Wales foxed me. The Gazette will also be taking a break next week for a holiday. The next Gazette will be the 4th August.
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Get your diaries out Open Data Camp – the weekend ‘unconference’ entirely devoted to open data will be returning for a fifth time, in Belfast, on October 21 & 22, 2017. Plenty of good open gov data and open data stuff happening North and South of the border, so a good choice I think.
Speaking of south of the border. University College Dublin have launched a part-time ProfCert in Data Journalism aimed at the cpd market. Worth a look.
A few good medium posts to catch up on. Andrew Nicklin from the Johns Hopkins has a few ideas on How free open government data can coexist with fee-based access. There are a few models discussed and its nice to see them laid out in bitszie terms. In a similar vein but with a broader reading of value, Ric Roberts from Swirrl ponders an interesting formula - Data+ ? =Profit. Sally Kerr, has a great reflection on five years in open data including recommendations for datasets that should be top of your list if you're interested in getting to grips with making government data open. Finally Audrey Lobo-Pulo has the last of her series Open Data — The Promises, the Disillusion and the Panacea. All worth a read.
There's also a couple of good podcasts to listen to. The BBC college of journalism asks if Data Journalism is more important than ever, with Daniel Wainwright of the BBC England Data Unit. BBC data journalism editor John Walton, Guardian data projects team editor Helena Bengtsson and Paul Bradshaw who leads the new MA in Data Journalism at Birmingham City University. Also worth a listen is the Legacy Code Rocks podcast with the excellent Edafe Onerhime who talks open data and more.
As John Myles White points out, this essay exploring Histograms is "beautifully thorough and well-thought out". Interactive too.
The Register has a great interview with Caroline Bellamy, the Ordnance Survey’s first chief data officer. Who reveals that "one of the latest projects will be looking underground: it’s piloting work to map the exact locations of utilities suppliers, like gas and water mains or electricity cables". As the article goes on to note. Real opportunities for AR there.
The Sunlight Foundation take a deep dive into the way a journalist in Atlanta mapped closed data for accountability. It's a great story of the amount of work 'opening up' that goes into a visualizations.
There's a bit of a BI lean on these recommendations but if nothing else, Forbe's list of the 7 Best Data Visualization Tools In 2017 gives you a flavour of what's driving peoples data viz thinking.
But whatever platform you're using if you're not using Joyplots, then you're not on trend.
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If you're looking for an image processing/learning set to play with, then maybe the newly created and creative commons licensed set of pictures of MP's would be of interest.
If you're looking for even more data journalism stuff then why no try Peter Yeung's 1801 newsletter: You can subscribe here.
And, here's a tangent, if you're in Edmonton in Canada and you're looking for edible fruit trees then this open data driven map might help. I love the randomness of it but I love the way it engages and raises issue around food and environmental security more.
Finally, R. J Andrews (infowetrust) has a data viz take on the old drawing an owl meme...
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