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Open Data 500 Study
Contributed by SupStat Inc. Data Scientist Team
+Outlines Open Data Now
Open Data 500
List of Cities Which Have Open Data Portals
Companies: including
10 companies in NY
6 companies in the United States excluding NY
5 companies in the U.K.
1 company in Shanghai, China
1 company in Taiwan, China
+Open data Now
“Today’s Open Data revolution is rapidly leading us into new territory.”
“Open Data is becoming a secret to success for smart business leaders around the world.”
+Open data Now
“Open Data can best be described as accessible public data that people, companies, and organizations can use to launch new ventures, analyze patterns and trends, and solve complex problems.”
In terms of the similarity and difference between Big Data and Open Data, it is obviously that the introduction about Big Data could not represent the scenario of Open Data.
+Open data Now
“This book describes the business applications of Open Data with examples from dozens of companies.”
This book reflects the vision, insights, knowledge, and advice of the leaders in this field who have been interviewed by the author.
This book also “contains several resources to help readers explore the possibilities of Open Data”.
+Open Data 500
Open Data 500 is an initiative to research the U.S. companies and organizations that make use of Open Data published by government in an innovative way to develop new businesses.
The research is funded by Knight Foundation, a foundation aiming at promote journalism & media innovation, advance community engagement, and forster the arts.
Governance Lab ("GovLab"), located at New York University, is responsible for conducting the research. GovLab is a platform that brings togother innovators from different backgrounds to collabratively seek new-technology based solutions for better governance.
Open Data 500.com is the website that publishes research outcomes and collects new information about such companies.
+Open Data 500
Three established goals of the Open Data 500 research
a. Provide a basis for assessing the economic value of
government open data
b. Encourage the development of new open data
companies
c. Foster a dialogue between government and business
on how government data can be made more useful
+Open Data 500
Blueprint
a. Domestically, initiate a roundtable series to invovle both
government, Open Data providers, and businesses and
organizations, Open Data users, to communicate on
potential improvement of Open Data.
b. Internationally, cooperate with international
organizations and governments from other countries to
copy U.S. paradiam to worldwide.
+Open Data 500
Strategies of ongoing incoporation of other companies
that use Open Data
a. Outreach campaign: through mass emails, professional
meetings, various social media
b. Expert advice: through industry practioners and lab
advisors
c. Research: through other sources of identification, like
Online Open Data Userbase
+Open Data 500 OpenData500.com has filtering functionality that can filter
recorded companies based on industry, location of state, data sources of agency.
+What will we cover
Company’s background
Data sources
What do they do with the data
How do they serve the clients with the data
Profit model
Awards/current condition
+Companies to be introduced
NY: US UK ChinaEnigma Archimedes Inc. Mastodon C Big Data Bureau
ZocDoc SigFig Locatable (Shanghai)
Honest Buildings PsychSignal Open Corporates Open Data Alliance
Capial Cube CARFAX DueDil (Taiwan)
Bloomberg Zillow CarbonCulture
Aidin Brightscope
Calcbench
Consumer Reports
GetRaised
Palantir
+Enigma.iocompany’s background
The connotation of the company’s name:“Both in honor of the code-breaking machine developed by computer pioneer Alan Turing during World War II and because they were finding that too much public data was more enigmatic than it should be.”
Team members and size:Now a little over a dozen people, who are all based in New York.
+Enigma.iodata sources
Their datasets included both government data and
data from clients, such as Nike’s public list of its
suppliers.
Their data deluge had grown to 100,000 datasets
and more than 20 billion individual data points.
+Enigma.iowhat do they do with the data
Take valuable public data and make it much more usable.
Make it possible to search through the entire
dataset at a rapid rate.
“Develop a robust data resource and an impressive set of tools”.
+ Enigma.io how do they serve the clients with the data
Help clients find the publicly-accessible information
that is relevant to their corporations or economic
accessibility.
Take data in all kinds of formats and put them into easily usable form of entire datasets.
Turn public sector information into Open Data.
+Enigma.ioprofit model
For now, Enigma’s profit mainly come from charges
for accessing to data, though they charge more for
hedge funds and less for academics, nonprofits, or
government agencies.
Enigma wants to, eventually, make their data
accessible to public, and gain profit from analytic
and other premium service.
+ Enigma.ioawards
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+ZocDoccompany’s background
Founded in 2007 with a mission of improving access
to healthcare, ZocDoc is a free service that allows
patients to find a nearby doctor or dentist.
Cyrus Massoumi, CEO of ZocDoc said:
"After I ruptured my eardrum on a flight, I couldn't find a
doctor for four days. I knew that there had to be an easier
way for patients to find doctors. That was when I had the
idea for ZocDoc."
+ZocDocdata sources
They collect information for patients to share with
health providers.
In the mean time obtain information from doctors
such as location, specialty, insurance preferences,
and patient reviews to assist patients with decision
making.
+ZocDocwhat do they do with the data
Encrypt data to the same standards that banks use
to safeguard your financial information.
Constantly analyze data to better understand who
uses ZocDoc and how they can improve it.
+ ZocDoc how do they serve the clients with the data
Help find nearby doctors and dentists who accept
their insurance, see their real-time availability, and
instantly book an appointment via ZocDoc.com or
ZocDoc’s free apps for iPhone or Android.
Guarantee the patients to get access to cure within
24 – 72 hours.
+ZocDocprofit model
The healthcare providers who partner with ZocDoc
pay a subscription fee for ZocDoc's service. Since
they help increase the efficiency of their practices.
+ ZocDocawards
Time Magazine 50 Best Websites 2012
Business Insider App 100: World's Greatest Apps 2013
Fortune Magazine Best Small & Medium Companies 2012, 2013
Crain’s Best Places to Work in NYC 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Modern Healthcare Best Places to Work 2011, 2012, 2013
Arizona Business Magazine Most Admired Companies 2013
+Honest Buildingscompany’s background
Founded in 2011, Honest Buildings now has around
30 employees.
Honest Buildings is a commercial real estate
marketplace that connects top building professionals
with building owners, decision makers and project
managers.
It is a social media application for real estate.
+Honest Buildingsdata sources
Honest Buildings collects information that is posted
by building professionals, owners, tenants, and other
stakeholders.
+Honest Buildingswhat do they do with the data
“Big data is great, but you need to do something with it. Platforms that contextualize data are in great demand.” - HonestBuildings.com
Honest Buildings collects and posts all sorts of relevant data that is hard for users to find, like energy costs, walkability.
+Honest Buildingshow do they serve the clients with the data
Launches matching service that offers service
providers step-by-step guidance to win a matched
project
a. Register your company
b. Build a portfolio
c. Get founded, add tags & connections
d. Win new business.
+Honest Buildingsprofit model
Honest Buildings’ provides matching services to
developers for free.
It charges candidates, i.e. builders and contractors
for a fee to match for developers.
+Honest Buildingsawards
Grand Prize for Vrban, Disrupt NY 2014 Hackathon
+Capital Cubecompany’s background
AnalytixInsight was founded in 2010, with about 10
employees.
Being the online portal of AnalytixInsight,
CapitalCube.com is a global investor portal for
comprehensive company analysis
Operate on-demand fundamental research, portfolio
evaluation, and screening tools on over 40,000
global equities.
+Capital Cubedata sources
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Third-party data providers
a. FactSet
b. Thomson Reuters
c. Capital IQ
+Capital Cubewhat do they do with the data Develop a software that
can capture 40,000
internationally-operated
public companies’ data on
everyday basis.
Transform the data into
word reports and graphics
that investors can use to
compare companies and
make investment decision.
+Capital Cubehow do they serve the clients with the data Investment tools
Analytical service
a. Dividend analysis
b. Earnings quality analysis
Strength
a. Large coverage of 40,000 companies
b. Timeliness on daily basis
+Capital Cubeprofit model
License out its produced content and ability to
dealers. Two big deals of such are with:
a. Samsung: every time Samsung users download
CapitalCube’s quote, AnalytixInsight gets revenue
share.
b. Dow Jones: AnalytixInsight gets paid for every page
view of its content that is posted on Dow Jones’s
published pages.
+Capital Cubeawards
Oct. 28, 2013: recognition as a company using federal open data in innovative and exciting ways, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI).
+Bloomberg company’s background
Founded in 1982.
The global business and financial information and
news leader, gives influential decision makers a
critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic
network of information, people and ideas.
Strength – delivering data, news and analytics
through innovative technology, quickly and
accurately.
+Bloomberg data sources
Large public corporations’ reports about their
sustainability data.
+Bloomberg what do they do with the data
ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governmental)
data on the Bloomberg Terminal is fully integrated
into all of Bloomberg Terminals’ analytics.
+Bloomberg how do they serve the clients with the data
Large proportion of public
companies are now
reporting their
sustainability data, a set
of metrics innovated by
Global Reporting
Initiative, to public. This is
data that investors are
increasingly caring about.
+Bloomberg profit model
As a data-driven media company, Bloomberg has journalists all around to congregate financial and business real-time information.
The company operates over 300,000 terminals which receive financial data released by the company.
This business generates 6.3 billion US dollars as estimated in 2008.
+Bloombergawards
Bloomberg is on track for record revenues of $8.3
billion in 2013 and profits of about $2.7 billion
+Aidincompany’s background
Aidin was founded in 2011, and has a scale of less than 10 employees.
The foundation of the company was inspired by a troublesome experience of the Aidin’s founder’s family about the trivial matters they had to deal with when a family member was processing the discharge from hospital.
It is missioned to bring transparency to healthcare facilities and provide patients with information that they need when making healthcare-related decisions.
+Aidindata sources
Government Open Data.
Patients’ review about hospitals.
“First with weather and GPS data and now with
health data, the U.S. government has defined its
responsibility as defining, gathering, and presenting
data on important subjects in easily usable forms.”
+Aidinwhat do they do with the data
+Aidinhow do they serve the clients with the data Aidin provides post-acute
healthcare facilities with data to improve their services.
Patients can also choose facilities based on Aidin’s information.
+Aidinprofit model
Aidin profit from their products, including the full
Aidin solution, Aidin Lite, and Aidin Provider
+Aidinawards
Grand Prize Winner, GE's Hospital Quest
competition.
+Calcbenchcompany’s background
Founded in 2011, Calcbench is the first company of
its kind to fully harness the power of the new
government mandated data standard XBRL
(Extensible Business Reporting Language), yielding
an unprecedented direct line into the SEC’s
corporate financial data repository.
Calcbench currently has less than 10 employees.
+Calcbenchdata sources
XBRL is a freely available and global standard for
exchanging business information
XBRL reports
+Calcbenchwhat do they do with the data After Calcbench’s
processing, it turns public-accessible but hard-to-use XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) data into more detailed and insightful data, thus adding up the value to the data.
+Calcbenchhow do they serve the clients with the data Calcbench processes the raw data mandatorily-
collected by government through XBRL and turns it
into usable information to the financial industry.
Calcbench also uses technologies to help SEC
elevate data quality like in terms of error
identification and correction.
+Calcbenchprofit model
Calcbench serves corporate reporting professionals, corporate finance leaders, auditors, investment researchers, and academies.
It charges fee for using its service and provides premium suite to generate revenue.
+Calcbenchawards
Grand Prize Winner, XBRL Challenge at the XBRL
and Financial Analysis Technology Conference,
February 29, 2012.
+Consumer Reportscompany’s background
Founded in 1936, Consumer Reports is an expert,
independent, nonprofit organization whose mission
is to work for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all
consumers and to empower consumers to protect
themselves.
It has over 500 employees.
+Consumer Reportsdata sources
Hospital Compare, a federal website
Data from various states in the U.S.
+Consumer Reportswhat do they do with the data
Consumer Reports produces safety ratings for more
over two thousand hospitals, based on Open Data
sources.
+Consumer Reportshow do they serve the clients with the data
Improve American people’s lives by using public-
accessible data.
Consumer Reports’ safety ratings can assist
customers with decision making on which hospital to
go.
+Consumer Reportsprofit model
Consumer Reports is a non-profit organization. It does not accept advertisements nor have shareholders, but depends solely on subscribers’ fee.
+Consumer Reportsawards
Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service, Society of
Professional Journalists, 2008
Honorable Mention, National Press Club for Caution:
The Secret Score Behind Your Auto Insurance, 2007
People’s Voice Award, International Academy of
Digital Arts and Sciences, 2006
Golden Triangle Award, American Academy of
Dermatology, 2005
+GetRaisedcompany’s background
GetRaised was founded in 2010, with less than 10
employees now.
GetRaised aspires to be: a bunch of complicated
data that is hidden behind a very simple, easy-to-use
interface that can help narrow the wage gap and
help people get paid more.
+GetRaiseddata sources
Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Users’ input
Various online job postings
+GetRaisedwhat do they do with the data
GetRaised uses the collected data to develop a
salary engine.
It has created raise request based on the analysis of
experts from related fields, like HR and research
institutes.
+GetRaisedhow do they serve the clients with the data GetRaised provides customers with information on
how much they should be paid, was underpaid, and should ask for an increase in salary.
A significant proportion of women who request for salary raise based on the information of GetRaised got their raise eventually.
+GetRaisedprofit model
As a non-profit, GetRaised provides free service to
users.
It receives support from two organizations and four
individuals.
+GetRaisedawards
According to Dave Clarke, a communications
strategist, “81% of women that have used GetRaised
have, in fact, earned a raise. The average raise
amount across all users (male and female) is
$6,473”.
+Palantircompany’s background
Palantir was founded in 2004, with over 500
employees today
It develops software which professionals from
different industries and sectors can perform analysis
on massive disparate data
Its product and service helps combat terrorism,
prosecuting crimes, fighting fraud, and eliminate
waste
+Palantirdata sources
Government Open Data
+Palantirwhat do they do with the data
Various types of data is entered by users into Palantir’s software, and it will generate reports and analysis that users can understand directly. It’s not only artificial intelligence, but something called intelligence augmentation.
+Palantirhow do they serve the clients with the data Help government analyze its open data in order to
reflect government expenditure and possible flaws.
Combat people trafficking by analyzing data.
+Palantirprofit model
Investment from shareholders
Sale of software
Reported to be valued at $9 billion by the end of 2013
+Palantirawards
VAST2009 Visual Analytics Award, 2009
Hall of Innovation Award, J. P. Morgan Chase
Technology Innovation Symposium, October 2010
+Archimedes Inc.company’s background
Began as part of Kaiser Permanente in 1993 and
split of as a second company in 2006.
It has decades of experience in developing
algorithms and predictive models for healthcare.
+Archimedes Inc.data sources
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Databases of clinical trials.
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
+Archimedes Inc.what do they do with the data
They use the Archimedes Model as its core tool to analyze data.
Archimedes scientists have analyzed many various relevant data to derive hundreds of equations that represent the effects of multiple diseases, tests, and treatments.
The equations are integrated into a single, large-scale simulation model using object-oriented programming.
+ Archimedes Inc. how do they serve the clients with the data
They provide a suite of online healthcare simulation and analytics tools (ARCHeS) that provide answer to questions about the health outcomes and economic effects of different interventions.
They also have a product (IndiGo) that generates individual guidelines that identify and help prioritize the best preventive care for each patient.
+Archimedes Inc.profit model
They make a profit by selling their products: ARCHeS (Archimedes Healthcare Simulator) and IndiGo (Individualized Guidelines and Outcomes).
They also provide modeling and consulting services, including modeling of disease and new intervention, and analyzing different prevention strategies.
+ Archimedes Inc.awards
Jun 6, 2012: IndiGO Receives Best of Care
Applications Award at the 2012 Health Data
Initiative III.
+SigFigcompany’s background
+SigFigdata sources
Historical fundamentals & Price data
Data on load fees comes from Lipper
Portions of their advice rely on third-party market
data from companies like Lipper, Thomson-
Reuters, Interactive Data, and Xignite.
+SigFigwhat do they do with the data
+ SigFig how do they serve the clients with the data
A single Portfolio Dashboard
+SigFigprofit model
“The company doesn’t charge a management fee.
Instead, it earns its revenue through publishing
arrangements with several websites and referral
fees when users go to a new broker.”
+ SigFigawards
+PsychSignal company’s background Launched by SmogFarm, another startup that
analyzes large open datasets.
+PsychSignal data sources
Data is pulled from social media conversations.
+PsychSignal what do they do with the data
Scour the online conversation looking for distinct
psychological expressions of emotion or attitude.
Aggregate millions of expressions to arrive at a
picture of crowd mood in real time.
Built an advanced proprietary sentiment engine.
Use NASA developed signal processing.
+ PsychSignal how do they serve the clients with the data
+PsychSignal profit model
NASA recently open sourced an algorithm our
engineers found particularly useful.
Day to day sentiment is extremely noisy, making it
hard to determine subtle changes in trending
sentiment data.
These NASA algorithms help uncover the trend
beneath the noise.
+ PsychSignal awards
+CARFAXcompany’s background
Provide vehicle history information, used by
millions of consumers each year.
Receive millions of visitors each month.
With thousands of auto dealers nationwide
subscribers.
+CARFAXdata sources
U.S. motor vehicle agencies
Canadian provincial motor vehicle agencies
Auto auctions
Collision repair facilities
Service/ maintenance facilities
Insurance companies
Salvage auctions
Automotive recyclers
Rental/fleet vehicle companies
State inspection stations
+ CARFAXwhat do they do with the data
Format the data into reports containing the following information:a. Title information, including salvaged or junked titlesb. Flood damage historyc. Total loss accident historyd. Odometer readingse. Lemon historyf. Number of ownersg. Accident indicators, such as airbag deploymentsh. State emissions inspection resultsi. Service recordsj. Vehicle use (taxi, rental, lease, etc.)
+ CARFAX how do they serve the clients with the data
Provide reports at a price.
Provide information regarding used cars to sell and
car deals.
Also provide car facts research on various makes
and models of different cars.
+CARFAXprofit model
Make a profit mainly by
selling their reports.
Also offer
CARFAX Hot Listings™ and
Safety & Reliability Ratings™
products.
+ CARFAXawards
Has the most comprehensive vehicle history
database available in North America
One of the top five websites that consumers turn to
for vehicle information
+Zillowcompany’s background
Founded in 2005, the company is headquartered in Seattle with offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Irvine, Calif. and Lincoln, Neb.
It provide consumers with information and tools to make smart decisions about homes, real estate, and mortgages
“At Zillow, we built our business taking public real estate information that was previously only accessible by spending hours in dusty registry of deeds making it easily accessible to consumers, for free.”
+Zillowdata sources
Freely available data from:
a. The Bureau of Labor Statistics.
b. The Federal Housing Finance Agency.
c. The Census Bureau.
+Zillowwhat do they do with the data
Collected open government data and build a living
database of more than 110 million U.S. homes.
Republished the data on their website to provide
users with various information regarding homes,
real estate, and mortgages.
+ Zillow how do they serve the clients with the data
Provide search for houses for sale, for rent, and
pre-market, as well as information for buyers and
lenders.
Provide an open, anonymous, and free marketplace
for borrowers and lenders.
Zestimate, Zillow's estimated market value for an
individual home, a starting point in determining a
home's value.
+Zillowprofit model
Zillow operates mainly by advertising.
It operates the largest real estate and rental
advertising networks in the U.S. in partnership with
Yahoo! Homes.
“The company was founded in 2005, had over $66
million in revenue when they launched an IPO in
2011, and had a valuation of $2.3 billion in 2013.”
+ Zillowawards
In 2013
November 17: Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff named the EY National National Entrepreneur of the Year™ 2013 Services Award.
April 30: Zillow sweeps the real estate category in the 17th Annual Webby Awards, winning the People's Voice Award and the overall Webby Award in the Real Estate category.
October 10: Zillow wins the Mortgage Technology Award for its Zillow Mortgage Marketplace iPhone App.
June 13: Zillow honored at the Webby Awards as the People's Voice Winner and the overall Webby Award winner for the Real Estate category.
May 4: Zillow wins Webby Award as Best Real Estate site.
+Brightscope company’s background
BrightScope®, Inc. is a financial information
company use data to drive better decision-making
for individual investors, corporate plan sponsors,
asset managers, etc.
It primarily operates in two major segments:
Retirement Plans and Wealth Management.
+Brightscopedata sources
Data on Form 5500 from Department of Labor.
The founders, Mike and Ryan Alfred, actually
persuaded the Department of Labor to begin
collecting and publishing the Form 5500 data on
the Internet.
+Brightscopewhat do they do with the data
The gathered and republished data to make it more
clear and informative, and more available to the
public.
+ Brightscope how do they serve the clients with the data
Provide ratings of 401k and 403b plans across
critical metrics.
Launched the first comprehensive and publicly
available directory of Financial Advisors.
Provides free white papers for the public that
examine trends in the Defined Contribution (DC)
market.
+Brightscopeprofit model
Make a profit by selling their market intelligence
product called Beacon and their sales intelligence
product for retirement plans called Spyglass.
Sell research papers with detailed investment and
provide data on 50,000 Defined Contribution (DC)
plans.
+ Brightscopeawards
The first to convince the Department of Labor to
begin collecting and publishing the Form 5500 data
and utilized that data to make a profit.
The first comprehensive and publicly available
directory of Financial Advisors.
+Mastodon Ccompany’s background
Mastodon C is a Big Data analytics company.
It was the first of its kind to join the ODI (Open Data Institute) incubator.
CEO Fran Bennett spent years working for search engines, help them to turn data into money.
+Mastodon Cdata sources
Their main data source is the big sets of Open Data from the U.K.’s (NHS) National Health Services.
+Mastodon Cwhat do they do with the data
Use cloud computing to analyze data.
Use Hadoop and Cassandra technologies to integrate real time sensor data, web service data and spreadsheets from their clients.
One of their main signatures is analyzing data on zero carbon infrastructure.
+ Mastodon C how do they serve the clients with the data
Turn messy data, either open data or clients’
proprietary data, into useful insights.
Serve data into a format that makes sense.
+Mastodon Cprofit model
“Mastodon C has just done a government-funded
analytics of variations in prescribing patterns
across the United Kingdom, finding areas where
expensive drugs are being prescribed for no
apparent reason when generics would work as
well.”
+ Mastodon Cawards
Winner of Best Hack and the PeopleFund. it Award at the London Green Hackathon 2012.
+Locatablecompany’s background
Another company in the ODI incubator.
At first they wanted to help people find where to live and built a website to provide data for such decisions, now they changed their website to assist people in managing their home.
Founders Vasanth Subramanian and David Prime are both former physics students.
+Locatabledata sources
+Locatablewhat do they do with the data
Collect from all sources and integrate them into one dashboard.
+ Locatable how do they serve the clients with the data
Provide their clients with a single dashboard to manage their home and optimize their performances.
Provide visibility across all the most expensive cost including mortgage, insurance, utility bills and maintenance costs.
Help their clients find cheaper deals for all these services.
+Locatableprofit model
A similar business model to a property portal which generates leads for estate agents.
Steps to search:a. Customers log on and enter the locations that they
want to live near.
b. The results show customers the places which best fit the bill and the properties available.
c. The website refers customers to sites and charges an affiliate fee.
+ Locatablecurrent condition
As ODI analyzes, their site “currently caters for the London area but the team are working on rolling it out across the UK”.
For example, “in 2 months, Locatable has attracted more than 4,000 unique visitors, with users offering some great feedback.”
+OpenCorporatescompany’s background
The company behind OpenCorporates is Chrinon Ltd, and the people who founded it are Chris Taggart and Rob McKinnon.
Rob built TheyWorkForYou.nz and WhosLobbying.com.
Chris built OpenlyLocal.com and OpenCharities, and sits on the UK Government's Local Public Data Panel, the UK's Tax Transparency Board, and Open Knowledge Foundation's open government working group.
+OpenCorporatesdata sources
They source the information in their databases
from government and other sources through a
variety of means including: a. directly from government websites and APIs,
b. from publicly available datasets,
c. or through Freedom of Information requests.
+OpenCorporateswhat do they do with the data
As Chris explains, “we take messy data from
government websites, company registers, official
filings and data released under the Freedom of
Information Act, clean it up and using clever code
make it available to people.”
+ OpenCorporates how do they serve the clients with the data
+OpenCorporatesprofit model
While Open Corporates releases all its findings
for free as Open Data under an open license, its
business model includes offering additional paid
services.
+ OpenCorporatescurrent condition
+DueDil company’s background
Launched in 2011, this startup called Duedil -
derived from “due diligence” – “is building an
ambitious database on the other side of the
Atlantic”.
Their goal is to provide requisite information for
lenders to invest in small and medium-size
companies with confidence.
+DueDildata sources
“Much of Duedil is built on Open Data, like data
from Companies House, the United Kingdom’s
central corporate registry.”
They also use some proprietary data sources.
+DueDilwhat do they do with the data
They aggregated more that 20 years of digitized
financial record and made it available on their
website
+ DueDil how do they serve the clients with the data
They provides data on small-to-medium-sized
companies in the hope of encouraging hundreds of
billions of dollars in new investment.
+DueDilprofit model
They use Open Data to fill the information gap between small business owners and the investors.
They “add value through its analysis and functionality rather than by having exclusive rights to any dataset”.
They also “serve as a platform where SMEs can provide information about themselves look for potential business partners, and develop the groundwork for productive dearls”.
+ DueDilawards
They has been nominated for numerous startup company awards, including:
a. being shortlisted for two Guardian Digital Innovation 2012 awards,
b. finalist in the Orange Innovation Award in the National Business Awards 2012,
c. named as one of '31 to Watch' in Outsell’s Information Industry Outlook 2012: Break and Reset report.
+CarbonCulturecompany’s background
It is “a digital start-up that was launched in 2009”.
“Luke Nicholson, the founder and Director of CarbonCulture, is a social entrepreneur with a background in design communications and sustainable innovation.”
Now, “the team is made up of four full-time employees and several part-time staff, with a broad network of associates, partner businesses and NGOs.”
+CarbonCulturedata sources
Data is collected from an organization’s Building
Management Systems and its Automated Meter
Reading.
Luke Nicholson says: “We can integrate with any
system, as well as with buildings that do not have
automated meter readings. We publish open data
for a number of government departments, local
authorities and universities, and are working now
with corporate customers to do the same for them.”
+CarbonCulturewhat do they do with the data
They were “inspired by a huge global challenge –
to accelerate sustainable transformation at a large
scale and to use digital technology and great
design to make it happen.
They use high-tech metering to monitor carbon use
in the workplace.
+ CarbonCulture how do they serve the clients with the data
It helps clients use that data to make better
decisions around energy usage and sustainability,
enabling them to realise cash savings.
It also places great emphasis on design and user
interface, enabling people within an organisation to
connect, so that employees develop a shared
understanding of sustainability.
+CarbonCultureprofit model
Measure and report on clients’ carbon and energy
performance, publishing it in real time online as
well as in workplace receptions and intranets.
Develop apps for clients that allow people and
buildings to work together to make savings.
+ CarbonCultureawards
It delivered much higher engagement and energy
savings than expected - 40% staff take up and a
10% saving in gas usage - leading to
CarbonCulture being deployed in seven more
government departments.
+Big Data BureauShanghai, China
Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization is now preparing a Big Data Bureau to share government data and information.
On April 30, 2014, Shanghai Public Credit & Information Platform was open to the public at the first time.
But there are still many challenges for the government.
+Taiwan’s Open Data Alliance
+Taiwan’s Open Data Alliance The UK’s Open Data Institute (ODI) and Taiwan’s
Open Data Alliance (ODA) signed a Letter of Intent on 11 December 2013
They will collaborate on a range of activities:
Sharing expertise, knowledge and best practice
Carrying out collaborative projects
Designing support and collaboration systems for open data driven businesses
Developing open data technologies