[Open-data-census] making open data consumable

Thu Mar 13 09:15:31 UTC 2014

There might be a better list for you to share your wares, as far as I know,
this one is about the census and not about what you shared.  Perhaps go
fishing in the OKFN groups and find the right one.

Cheers
t

ps- my inbox is crazy and I try to stay focussed on the material i receive.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:30 AM, nilanjan bhattacharya
<nilanjanb at live.com>wrote:

>
> I don't follow this group closely, however I am interested in the idea of
> open data.
>
> I think open data should move beyond excel/pdf/spreadsheets.  I think
> technology (visualization/analytics) has progressed a lot in the last few
> years.  To take advantage of the technology, the data should be represented
> in a digitally consumable form.  I think you can convert excel/pdf to json
> with little effort (some effort is required).  The returns on that are many
> fold.
>
> I wrote a blog post on how I converted the Singapore 2014 budget to JSON
> files - http://revelutions.com/?p=461
>
> If you'd like to see how the data is used take a look at another blog post
> http://revelutions.com/?p=454  In this post I have created a
> visualization using the data.  Note this works better on a laptop/desktop,
> since I have tooltips which show the values.
>
> The key concept in converting to JSON is preserving the heirarchy in the
> data.  See this sample : http://revelutions.com/budgets/moh.json
>
> - Nilanjan
>
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