[okfn-labs] OpenSpending

Fri Oct 5 14:21:46 UTC 2012

Hey Derek,

(re-sending with list)

nice to meet you. Short intro: I'm working on OpenSpending.org and
would be more than happy to support you with your efforts to use our
platform for the (brilliant!) Cook project - either via Mail or in
Skype/IRC.

I'm also very keen to learn more about dedupe (and would love to find
out how it can integrate with nomenklatura, which is just something we
hacked up to get our ETL processes a bit smoother). Am I right in
assuming that dedupe could be used as a library in nomenklatura to
offer more advanced clustering of candidates? What exactly is required
for training a dataset? I've looked at the sample but I'm not clear on
how this works to compare several fields and how one would deal with
the outputs (would you still require manual cross-checking?).

Cheers,

 - Friedrich

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Derek Eder <derek.eder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rufus,
>
> Good to meet you this week at the CfA Summit.
>
> I'll definitely look in to plugging LookAtCook.com in to the OpenSpending
> back end. I'd like to keep the front end working as it is, as its pretty
> intuitive and you can deep link to each view. The code is on github if
> you're interested: https://github.com/open-city/look-at-cook
>
> I think I also became a CKAN convert yesterday. Going to look in to standing
> up an instance here in Chicago. Also, here's the dedupe python library I
> mentioned: https://github.com/open-city/dedupe. I think it would be pretty
> powerful to plug in to CKAN and/or nomenklatura.
>
> Derek
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Just ping re lookatcook.com and connecting re openspending
>
>
>
>
> --
> Derek Eder
> @derek_eder
> derekeder.com
> derek.eder at gmail.com
>

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Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org>

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