TDC — Issue 1
Using open data to measure impact, helping local communities and exploring the olive oil wars.
👋 This is a short and curated list of interesting news, ideas, datasets, people, and many other things around the Open Data ecosystem.
News
HuggingFace has recently acquired XetHub, a company working on making Git scalable to large amount of data. If you're thinking about storing large datasets, you might want to check out HuggingFace!
Articles
Measuring the impact of open source software — A great post by Carl Cervone on the opportunity to combine data about funding, work contributions, and network-level impact outcomes to measure the impact of open source software. This kind of work is possible thanks to the transparency of blockchain-based funding models but still hard due to the lack of data skills in the community.
Community Level Open Data Infrastructure — Due to the progress in terms of tools and infrastructure to work with data, is not possible to run community level data portals for free. This post explores the impact small to medium data infrastructure for communities could have in making curation, cleaning and joining datasets a smoother process.
Open Data Resources
The European Data Journalism Network has lots of posts covering interesting stories based on open data. I enjoyed their recent post on "The olive oil wars".
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