Monthly Shaarli

All links of one month in a single page.

February, 2011

Open Knowledge Foundation Open Data Advocate | eaves.ca

My colleagues over at the Open Knowledge Foundation have been thinking about recruiting an Open Data Advocate, someone who can coordinate a number of the activities they are up to in the open data space.

“Drowning In Information and Starving For Knowledge”: 21st Century Scholarly Publishing1
Census 2010 NJ by Moonshadow Mobile
Crime Maps: explore police stats with our interactive tool | News | guardian.co.uk
DSPL: Dataset Publishing Language - Google Code
Access for All – Swiss foundation for accessible technologies - New! Test PDF Files with the PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC)

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Rodalia.info - Twitter Öffi Verkehrsmeldungen

"hab bei einer Konferenz geniales spanisches Beispiel für Twitter Öffi Verkehrsmeldungen aufgeschnappt:
sehr schlankes design: http://rodalia.info/es
durch das datum der tweets erkennst du ob aktuelle störungen vorliegen, hastags werden inzwsichen im radio und tv verwendet"

25 Professional Comparison Tables
MTA BusTime - real-time information on the M34 or M16 routes
Public Data Corporation - ORG Wiki
Optimizing MySQL: Queries and Indexes

e has only one matching row. The primary key is being used to find this particular record, and the number of rows MySQL thinks it needs to examine to find this record is 1. All of which means MySQL could have run this query thousands of times in the time it took you to read this little explanation.

Is Open Government Data the New Spam?
ISO - Maintenance Agency for ISO 3166 country codes - English country names and code elements
Free Slideshow Plugins For Wordpress – Best of
OpenGovernment - revealing state and local government data

ce for government transparency at th

Code: Flickr Developer Blog » The Shape of Alpha

pe data the source code for Clustr is available in the Flickr Code repository and through our trac install, distributed under

IssueMap : Home
meisterluk/datenlandkarte - GitHub
Don't Make Me Steal - Digital Media Consumption Manifesto
DataWrangler - interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation
onebusaway - Project Hosting on Google Code
It's the Inequality, Stupid | Mother Jones
Making a difference with data

This project has been set up to spread understanding about open data and transparency in local public services. It will show how information obtained from public authorities such as the police, NHS, and local councils can be used by citizens to raise issues, campaign and otherwise influence things that affect local communities.

Public sector 'drowning in information' - Public Service
Welcome to Seeing Statistics

ics using the World Wide Web. This webbook is based on three premises:

* The important principles of statistics are remarkably easy if they can be seen.
* Active involvement of the student facilitates learning.
* Stati
PDF to Excel Converter - 50 Free Conversions
BotPwn - Pwn the bots!
jQuery Grid Plugin

release of jqGrid.
This version has a lot of “small”, but very useful additions and changes which simplify the code cration.
Here are some of the changes:

* jQuery 1.4.4 support
* jqGrid now should not have any dependency on other JS libs – we have only one name-space
Österreichische Orte, Gemeinden, Bezirke, Postleitzahlen, KFZ-Kennzeichen
AwesomeChartJS
Europe’s Energy: a new mini-app to put the European energy targets into context
Catalogues

Lists of open government data catalogues