organization:open knowledge foundation

Serving vector tiles is no fun. Grandine wants to change this.

▻https://github.com/thomersch/grandine

Some of you already might know that I am in the lucky, but stressful position of being funded for six months to work on #Vector #Tile related infrastructure. This is coming from Prototype Fund, a fairly new initiative by the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany and the German Ministry for Education and Research.
In short: Make hosting Vector Tiles painless and reproducible.

▻https://thomas.skowron.biz/blog/grandine-summary-march-2017
▻https://thomas.skowron.biz/blog/grandine-summary-april-2017
▻https://thomas.skowron.biz/blog/grandine-summary-may-2017
▻https://thomas.skowron.biz/blog/grandine-summary-june-2017
▻https://thomas.skowron.biz/blog/grandine-summary-july-2017

#osm #map

Local Groups #FAQ | Open Knowledge Foundation
▻http://okfn.org/local/faq #okfn

Getting Data : A Five Minute Field Guide | Resources | Data Driven Journalism

Signalé par Karen Bastien sur Scoop.it

►http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/Getting_Data_A_Five_Minute_Field_Guide

This post by Brian Boyer (Chicago Tribune), John Keefe (WNYC), Friedrich Lindenberg (Open Knowledge Foundation), Jane Park (Creative Commons), Chrys Wu (Hacks/Hackers), is an excerpt from the Data Journalism Handbook (chapter 4: Getting Data), freely available online under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

Looking for data on a particular topic or issue? Not sure what exists or where to find it? Don’t know where to start? In this section we look at how to get started with finding public data sources on the web.

Streamlining Your Search

While they may not always be easy to find, many databases on the web are indexed by search engines, whether the publisher intended this or not. Here are a few tips:

When searching for data, make sure that you include both search terms relating to the content of the data you’re trying to find as well as some information on the format or source that you would expect it to be in. Google and other search engines allow you to search by file type. For example, you can look only for spreadsheets (by appending your search with ‘filetype:XLS filetype:CSV’), geodata (‘filetype:shp’), or database extracts (‘filetype:MDB, filetype:SQL, filetype:DB’). If you’re so inclined, you can even look for PDFs (‘filetype:pdf’).

#visualisation #data #big-data #statistiques #données #cartographie

Le « Data Driven Journalism » à l’honneur

►http://datadrivenjournalism.net/news_and_analysis/diving_into_data_the_school_of_data_journalism_at_the_internat

Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia

In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to questions they were trying to answer. While this is still the case, today journalists are also faced with an overwhelming abundance of data. In an age of information overload, to stay relevant to society journalists need to learn to separate signal from noise in order to provide valuable insights. Journalists need to be equipped with knowledge of the tools, techniques and tactics of working with data in order to derive maximum value from for their readers.

The European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation are pleased to invite you to the School of Data Journalism hosted at the sixth edition of Italy’s leading journalism event, the International Journalism Festival. The 2012 edition takes place in the beautiful city of Perugia between 25-29 April. Entry to the School of Data Journalism panels and workshops is free. Each workshop has a limited number of places and therefore registration will be necessary. Please note that not all requests to participate in the workshops will be accepted.

#data #journalisme #media #statistiques #données #cartographie #visualisation