Monthly Archives: December 2010

Finding the data signal in the noise

Marshall Kirkpatrick, on ReadWriteWeb, poses the question A web of infinite information: does that sound like a scary problem of “just too much”? in a “Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Data Wranglers” where he discusses an interview with Evan Williams on GigaOm. (I’m not going to discuss the interview here (but […]

December 30, 2010 – 9:40 am | By iain_emsley | Posted in Information Retrieval | Tagged | Comments (0)

Hacking Arts Council data

I lost my hackday cherry yesterday and went to the Open Data hackathon to look at the South East arts council data found at the data.gov.uk site (http://data.gov.uk/dataset/grants-for-the-arts-awards-arts-council-england). Our hosts, White October, were fantastic and welcoming (and put the kettle on as soon as I came in!) and Incuna provided the much needed pizzas for […]

December 5, 2010 – 12:31 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in Information Retrieval, Open Knowledge | Tagged , , | Comments (2)