OK festival Lightning Talk - Collaborative Open Geospatial Data

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Collaborative Open Geospatial Data

Andrew Turner - @ajturner

Data is important

Data

...but users want answers

data is an abstraction,

d i k w

data is an abstraction,

information data that are processed to be useful

d i k w

data is an abstraction,

information data that are processed to be usefulknowledge application of data and information; answers "how" questions

d i k w

data is an abstraction,

information data that are processed to be usefulknowledge application of data and information; answers "how" questions

d i k w

- Russell Ackoffhttp://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm

wisdom evaluated understanding

Organizations

Science

MediaDevelopers

Enterprise

Citizens

Different questions

Different lenses

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Everyone will be a ‘Data Analyst’

We wanted to enable analysis ...but there wasn’t any data (2004)

People love stories

Location can be special

Created a super-simple mapping tool

http://geocommons.com

http://geocommons.com

15m+ maps served

100k+ unique datasetsbillions of features.

4m+ downloads

1m+ geographic attributes

Variations

Variations

Possible Comparative Analysis Combinations?

Variations

Possible Comparative Analysis Combinations?

Variations= 499,999,500,000

Possible Comparative Analysis Combinations?

Variations= 499,999,500,000

Possible Comparative Analysis Combinations?

well... close enough

Get back to answering questions

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...and Telling stories

Simple analysis tools

Simple analysis tools

Simple analysis tools

Simple analysis tools

Extensible analysis

Trackable Analysis

Share these on the web

Data is Petrol

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Journey & Destination matter

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who is at destination with me?

Jalalabad, Afghanisan

start mapping now - answer your own questions

Andrew Turner - @ajturner