The document discusses open data and how it can be used by hackers at hackathons to create visualizations. It notes that open data initiatives often publish data that goes unused. It then provides an example of how censorship data could potentially be visualized using open data. The document is presented by Matteo Collina and provides his contact information at the end.
1. The Usability of
Open Data
or how to extract meaning using Hackers
@matteocollina
2. What is
'Open Data'?
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3. Any Open Data
initiative publish books
that people don't read.
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10. Do you know how it feel?
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11. 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.
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