The Usability of Open Data

or how to extract meaning using Hackers

@matteocollina

What is 'Open Data'?

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Any Open Datainitiative publish books that people don't read.

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sInfographics are cool

What do you need to create a great visualization?

• Designers

• Developers

• Coffee?

• 24-hours?

sThis is called an Hackathon

Hacker

Hack

Hackathon

November 8-9 2011, European Parliament, Bruxelles

Ok, I was there

Do you know how it feel?

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Censorship is the suppression of

speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.

- Wikipedia

Could we visualize censorship using

Open Data?

sharpnod.esDemo

Who I amName: Matteo

Surname: Collina

What I do: Software Engineer

Twitter: @matteocollina

Website: matteocollina.com

Any Questions?

Thank You!