[Open-data-census] Customized Questions and Scores

Mon Feb 9 08:20:08 UTC 2015

We’re still in the process of creating a different census for cities: http://be-city.census.okfn.org/ <http://be-city.census.okfn.org/>
We’ve changed most of the questions because other censuses focussed on datasets that were not applicable on the local level. 
Eg. Restaurant / Food safety inspection is something on a federal level in Belgium, not local. A

We also have 17 datasets in stead of 15 and we had them crowdsourced in our community: http://openbelgium.be/2014/10/approve-our-top-15-datasets/ <http://openbelgium.be/2014/10/approve-our-top-15-datasets/>

Tinkering with the score weight or evaluation criteria is not on our agenda as it would make it for a user browsing over multiple censuses hard to understand or compare. 

Kind regards,
Pieter-Jan

Pieter-Jan Pauwels
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> On 08 Feb 2015, at 12:53, Mor Rubinstein <morchickit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Brice, great point about datasets specifications, but it's not part of the score/questions issue, mainly because those can be changed in local census without changing the code of the census.
> 
> I did however put it as a note for us in OK for the next global index. 
> 
> Best,
> Mor. 
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> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Brice Person <brice.person at club-internet.fr <mailto:brice.person at club-internet.fr>> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Are these problems listed anywhere ?
> 
> I would be happy to discuss about fine tuning some criterias (especially National Map).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brice Person (from France)
> 
> Le 07/02/2015 10:31, Tracey P. Lauriault a écrit :
>> Hi Waldo,
>> 
>> The index has a number of problems, for different jurisdictions and i think a deep conversation about it is important.
>> 
>> cheers
>> Tracey
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Friday, February 6, 2015, Waldo Jaquith <waldo at usopendata.org <mailto:waldo at usopendata.org>> wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> I’m working with Emily Shaw, at the Sunlight Foundation, to put together a census of U.S. states’ open data efforts. We’re going to change the evaluation criteria a bit, to work better for U.S. states, notably by increasing scores for datasets that are served over SSL (or are otherwise automatically verifiable). Changing the questions and their scores isn’t something that’s supported by Open Data Census, because OKF wants to be able to provide global comparisons, which requires constant metrics. We’re going to fork the project to make the necessary changes, though, so that's an easy problem to solve, although it’s a shame to work somewhat outside of OKF’s ecosystem.
>> 
>> I’m curious, though—does anybody else find that they want/need to change questions or scores? Or is it just us? :)
>> 
>> Best,
>> Waldo
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