[School-of-data] Tutorial for publishing data using github

Fri May 3 01:32:35 UTC 2013

It's excellent advice to host data on GitHub.

Christopher Gandrud has also blogged on the topic:
http://christophergandrud.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/data-on-github-easy-way-to-make-your.html

His post includes some R code to access GitHub data (probably not that
useful if you use something like Winston Chang's downloader).

I keep a small collection of bookmarks on data availability and
related matters, if you're interested in the topic:
https://pinboard.in/u:phnk/t:data:availability/

Cheers,

François

On 1 May 2013 05:51, Alvaro Graves <alvaro at graves.cl> wrote:
> Finally I made a translation on the guide to publish data using github. You
> can find it at
> https://github.com/alangrafu/github-open-data-portal/wiki/How-to-publish-Open-Data-using-github
>
> Please, let me know if there is any spelling issue.
>
> Best,
> Al
>
> Alvaro Graves-Fuenzalida
> Web: http://graves.cl - Twitter: @alvarograves
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Really nice Alvaro.
>>
>> I and colleagues have been experimenting with using git (and github)
>> as home for datasets for a while:
>>
>> <https://github.com/datasets>
>> <http://data.okfn.org/data>
>> <http://data.okfn.org/about/contribute>
>>
>> I really like this approach!
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> On 24 April 2013 10:40, Alvaro Graves <alvaro at graves.cl> wrote:
>> > Dear All,
>> >
>> > A few days ago I published a tutorial on how to publish data using
>> > github.
>> > This tutorial was motivated by many small organizations (municipalities,
>> > small towns) that do not have data portals due lack of resources but
>> > still
>> > want to make data avialble.
>> >
>> > I wonder if there is interest in an english version of it. You can take
>> > a
>> > look at the tutorial at
>> >
>> > http://manzanamecanica.org/2013/04/como_publicar_open_data_con_github_una_guia_paso_a_paso.html
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Alvaro Graves-Fuenzalida
>> > Web: http://graves.cl - Twitter: @alvarograves
>> >
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