News Rewired Data Mash
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Playing with data: all you need is glue...
Tony Hirst
Department of Communication and Systems, The Open University
http://ouseful.info@psychemedia
At the start of April last year...
"the Guardian’s @datastore announced that a spreadsheet of UK MPs’ (Members of Parliament) expenses had been posted to the Guardian OpenPlatform datastore on Google Spreadsheets."
But what does it look like?
...because every picture tells a story
How's the Data Distributed?
Looking for (anti)correlations...
Enriching the data...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkpatator/2046061315/
Make the Data Fluid...
CSV Data From Google Spreadsheets
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub? key=phNtm3LmDZEObQ2itmSqHIA &output=csv &range=B2:AH684
Many Eyes Wikified Likes CSV Data
\\\\http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=phNtm3LmDZEObQ2itmSqHIA&output=csv&range=B2:AH684////
http://www.flickr.com/photos/umdrums/3179636281/
&
http://www.flickr.com/photos/basvanuyen/4198419341/
http://pipes.yahoo.com
Some calculations are done for free...
“Just” add location
data
JOIN
Geocoding
Help HTML Tables flow...
Creating flow...
Linked Data
Creating Visual Dashboard Feeds..
So what are you waiting for...
...start rewiring the news
Tony Hirst
Dept of Communication and Systems,The Open University
http://ouseful.info@psychemedia