Riding the Data Wave: Tools to Make Open Data Relevant
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Wednesday Aug 24, 6:30 PM
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Storify
- 149 9th street, Suite 404, San Francisco, CA
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147 attendees
The latest Hacks/Hackers panel will showcase companies that are solving the challenges of this Age of Data. We are living in a data deluge where every day, governments are opening up datasets and unleashing massive amounts of information to the public. This is creating a snowball effect where data continues to pile up far more quickly than ever before.
Each panelist will give a short demo of the technologies and tools they are building to help cope with data overload. Demos will be followed by a Q&A.
Presenters:
-Eva Ho, VP of Marketing Operations at Factual
-Diego May, CEO of Junar
-Tasneem Raja, Interactive editor of data apps at Mother Jones, formerly at The Bay Citizen.
Will there be presentation notes?
Will slides be posted at SlideShare with a link in Discussions/Messages
above? Will a vid be posted? At the meetup group "Creative Suite Lovers", vids of all meetups are posted in a folder push-pinned as the first entry in Discussions/Messages
. Thanks.
Another aspect to the issue of proprietary data has to do with lawsuits. This has been very effective for parcel (property boundary) data where counties were selling it for high prices (eg $150K). Lawsuits claiming the data should be publicly available because it was funded by tax dollars were eventually successful. I recently purchased that data for the cost of reproduction, about $5.
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