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Free our data: The Guardian’s approach Simon Rogers Editor: guardian.co.uk/datablog @datastore [email protected]. uk

Free our data: The Guardian’s approach Simon Rogers Editor: guardian.co.uk/datablog @datastore [email protected]

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Free our data:The Guardian’s approach

Simon Rogers

Editor: guardian.co.uk/datablog

@datastore

[email protected]

“Comment is free…”

“…but facts are sacred”

Visualising data

Enabling data to live for more than the moment

Making it truly public

The mutualisation of data

User involvement

MPs expenses

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Top level results

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Investigate your MP’s expenses

The established view

• “I’d like to see a “messy” collective of Kool-Aid slurping Wikipedians conduct the sort of rigorous analysis necessary for the Telegraph’s recent MPs’ expenses investigation. Can you imagine social media achieving anything like it? Of course you can’t: great journalism takes discipline and training – neither of which exists in [this] collaborative utopian fantasy.” Milo Yiannopoulos

The future: more government data

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Huge local datasets

The mutualisation

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