Show Us A Better Way:Show Us A Better Way:A Look Back/ForwardA Look Back/Forward

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Coming up...Coming up...

The basicsOpening upWhat happened?WinnersCommentsWhat happens next?

Start thinking about what “data” means to people...

But also what “people” means...

SUABW: What is it?SUABW: What is it?

Competition run by Power of Information Taskforce

Wanted ideas about what to do with open govt data

Made data available

Winners to be funded, supported

The basicsThe basics

A “mashup” is...

Something which "combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool. The term implies easy, fast integration, frequently done by access to open API's and data sources to produce results data owners had no idea could be produced.“

The basicsThe basics

Making data available Transparency = trust? Essential to get people taking competition

seriously?

Making data useful Efficiency – a thousand geeks with a thousand

keyboards Moving from consultation to implementation:

let people build what they need/want

Opening upOpening up

Data made available NeSS API Transport Direct: Bus stops, journey planning,

carbon calculator... NHS: Health care providers London Gazette Post Office: Sample postcode data on CD DCSF: List of schools Ordnance Survey: OpenSurvey HM Treasury: public spending information

http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/data.html

What happened?What happened?

Hundreds of ideas (428) submitted http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/ideas/index.html Ranging in theme, complexity, “mash up”-ness

Working Prototypes? http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/prototype/ Planning Finder

Alerts for planning applications http://www.planningfinder.co.uk/page/home

Local To Me News, weather, traffic, events etc for your postcode http://www.jardevelopments.com/suabwprototype/

The Missing List Search for missing items, persons, stolen things, police appeals, etc http://www.themissinglist.co.uk/

Online Watch Link Find your neighbourhood watch, school watch, business watch, etc. http://www.owl.co.uk/

WinnersWinners

3 categories of winners:

Full sites to be built

Idea to be supported and developed further

Existing prototypes to be funded

◦ http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/2008/11/and-the-winners-are.html

Winners – to be builtWinners – to be built

Can I recycle it? Find out what your council recycles

UK cycling Plan your cycling route

School catchment areasPostbox locationsLoofinder

Info of nearest public loo via text

Winners – to be supportedWinners – to be supported

Road Works APIOldienet

Services & information for older peopleFree Legal WebAllotment Manager

Connect up people with skills to those wanting to learn

Where does my money go? Visualising local vs national data

Winners – prototypesWinners – prototypes

UK School Maps Location of UK schools http://www.schoolmap.org.uk/ (down?)

Schoolguru “Admission Calculator” http://www.schoolguru.co.uk/ Working instance: http://www.schoolguruhertfordshire.co.uk/

Where’s the Path? O/S alongside Google satellite http://wheresthepath.googlepages.com/wheresthepath.htm

UK Wrecks Underwater shipwrecks around the coast http://www.southwestmafia.com/forumswm/vbgooglemaphse.php

SchoolguruSchoolguru

Where’s the path?Where’s the path?

UK WrecksUK Wrecks

Winners by themeWinners by theme

Locational data: 3Transport: 3Schools: 3Environment: 2Data, e.g. visualisation: 2Older people: 1

Entries by themeEntries by theme

Maps: LotsTransport: LotsEnvironment: 56Crime: 41Education: 36 Business: 18 Housing: 15 Planning: 15 Charities: 7 Young people: 6 Disabled people: 4 Energy: 3

(Totally not to scale)

CommentsComments

Many more ideas than actual prototypes

Many ideas along the lines of...• Plot locations on map• Search by own location

Some ideas already exist on other sites

Questions - TechnicalQuestions - Technical

What technical support would be useful going forwards?

Why not more prototypes? What other data would be useful? What other protocols would be useful? Central software library for dealing with

data? Central software library for

visualising/interacting with data?

Questions - UsersQuestions - Users

What should we learn about users? What kind of users?

Statisticians? Developers? Citizens? What do users ultimately want from data?

Type, scope, and format of data What views on data do users find helpful? What networking support between users

would be useful? (e.g. forums)

Questions - OtherQuestions - Other

Ownership & Legalities? e.g. O/S maps not free for public body use

Marketing? How do people know it exists? Is it worth building if people do not use - or

use alternatives?Economics?

Who funds the data? Is most efficient solution always the most

appropriate?

So What?So What?

What do we think of as “audience”? Data analysts? Protocol mashers? “End” users?

Transfer How can we make things more useful to ourselves? How can we transfer that to others?

(Data selection, data visualisation)

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