Author Archives: take21

Digest for 1st July

By take21 | Published: July 1, 2010

140Kit: an Open, Extensible Research Platform for Twitter http://bit.ly/c6haGC ‘Linking museums: machine-readable data in cultural heritage’ Shooting Star, E1 7JF. http://bit.ly/azFpF3 Notes from #tsbmeta event and TSB call for proposals on metadata & digital content > http://bit.ly/dCjslF (via @jasonhall) Congrats @ushahidi & @swiftriver! SiLCC is a cloud based service for extracting relevant keywords. http://bit.ly/dkOz3J Thanks […]

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Mapitude

By take21 | Published: May 22, 2010

Mappers meet developers meet open data It’s Mapitude time http://mapitude.eventbrite.com/ Mapitude draft programme Saturday May 22nd Coffee, set up, feature requests from 09:30 to 10:00   Upstairs Hackspace projects from 10:00 to 17:00   Session 1 Better mapping Using and adding photographs Brian Prangle Adding a map to your website or blog Simon Dann & others […]

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Open data, linked data news

By take21 | Published: May 7, 2010

Open Data, Linked Data & The Semantic Web explained: ReadWriteWeb   Nigel Shadbolt: slides on the data.gov.uk work can be found here http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18787/ #www2010   World Bank Open Data initiative http://data.worldbank.org/ TBL says “Everybody’s doing it!”   UK government guidlines Office of Public Sector Information regulations: public sector information re-use OPSI.gov   Local government What data […]

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General Election

By take21 | Published: May 5, 2010

  Context The Great British Economy Disaster by John Lanchester in the London Review of Books   Visualisation Election diagram: deficit cuts compared by party  Datablog Information is Beautiful   5 Great Mapping Apps to Help You Track the UK General Election Resourceshelf   Tools Vote Match is designed to help you with determining your voting […]

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Awesome

By take21 | Published: May 5, 2010

If the Milky Way were a CD, then the edge of the *known* universe is 10 miles away, or 134,112 CDs Imagine that our entire Milky Way galaxy were the size of a CD. On this scale, the nearest spiral galaxy, Andromeda, would be another CD about eight feet away.   The furthest galaxies we […]

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Information graphics

By take21 | Published: May 5, 2010

Excellent infographic The Trustworthiness of beards   Lies, dammed lies and statistics (about TED talks) Sebastian Wernicke turns the tools of statistical analysis on TEDTalks, to come up with a metric for creating “the optimum TEDTalk” based on user ratings. They explain: “In a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek analysis”,  for the benefit of people suffering chronic irony […]

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Futurewatch

By take21 | Published: May 5, 2010

PEW Research Center Report: The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future download PDF   When complex business models collapse Clay Shirky on why online video will not generate enough revenue to support the cost base of existing TV companies. [T]here are two ways to generate a profit: raise revenues above expenses, or […]

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OpenStreetMap

By take21 | Published: May 1, 2010

Public transport layers on German open street map Also covers UK, scroll.   PDF maps from #OSM: make your own TownGuide   Discussion on local data and open database license as used by Mappa-Mercia   Open Layers: free maps for the web http://www.openlayers.org/ V 2.9   Mapitude Birmingham #OSM workshop. OpenStreetMap for web developers workshop day […]

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OS VectorMap data available

By take21 | Published: May 1, 2010

Ordnance Survey just released VectorMap District, no announcement because of the election OS Open data download page

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Education, OER

By take21 | Published: May 1, 2010

OpenCourseWare economics in the New York Times Creative Commons blog Radio 4 19th April: The Report on the impact of funding cuts/poor management on UK Universities iPlayer link   Anya Kamenetz on the future of US higher education: Adapt or Decline InsideHigherEd Anya Kamenetz on alternative education, interview video   Moodle & WordPress stats http://moodle.org/stats/ […]

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