[open-government] Examples of open data leading to increase in data quality?

Tue Aug 27 18:26:44 UTC 2013

Hi Jonathan,
As someone who has worked on open data projects -in a science context- I
would argue
that much of the work of publishing a dataset is in cleaning it up so as to
be compatible
with whatever mechanism of dissemination is being employed. The cleaning
process inevitably
increases the data quality. The example given above by Ton is a classic
example of the kind
of problems that are discovered in the course of having a technician work
through a dataset
to make it open.
Best
Ted Strauss

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>wrote:

> There's the 18.000 faulty bus stops in UK geo data and the 20.000 pregnant
> men in UK NHS data. Both mentioned in this presentation
> http://www.slideshare.net/dirdigeng/20130719-muirfield01 by Andrew Stott.
>
> best,
>
> Ton
>
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> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I wonder if anyone has any good examples or evidence of how open data (or
>> - more generally - publicly released machine readable data) has led to an
>> increase in data quality?
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
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Ted Strauss
Co-founder of Trudat.co <http://trudat.co/>

I'm organizing Open Data Exchange <http://odx13.com/> in Montreal, April 6,
2013
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