I recently chanced upon "Data Is Plural" - an email newsletter, currently on issue 370. Each week it provides a list and some commentary on "useful/curious datasets". There's a ton of links in each issue for anyone who wants data to play or work with to get stuck into. To give a taster of what … Continue reading The Data Is Plural newsletter provides a mass of free and fascinating data
Tag: Open data
The Follower – an art project highlighting another way your data can be used to surveil you
Dries Depoorter's art project 'The Follower' is a clever use of publicly available video and image data and a fun glimpse into the how those "casual" Instagram shots are really taken. It's also a somewhat harrowing warning about what information us members of the public are unknowingly sharing in a world where tools can process … Continue reading The Follower – an art project highlighting another way your data can be used to surveil you
data.world: the place to go for your open data needs?
Somewhere in my outrageously long list of data-related links to check out I found "data.world". Not only is that a nice URL, it also contains a worthy service that I can imagine being genuinely useful in future, if it takes off like it should. At first glance, it's a platform for hosting data - seemingly biased towards the … Continue reading data.world: the place to go for your open data needs?
Dabbling with Data 