lak11 ws-messing withdata
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Messing with Data
Tony Hirst,Dept of Communication and Systems,The Open University #lak11
How can non-programmers do the sort of things that we might
normally think we need a developer to do?
“Data Is A Dish Best Served Raw”
http://eagereyes.org/
ND
Discovery
Acquisition as data
Representation
Cleansing
(Visual) Analysis
APIs, screenscraping and standardised document formats
Representation
Structured OR or unstructured
Human readable (text) or opaque document format?
Google Spreadsheets as a database
=QUERY('ISO Country Codes'!A2:B268, "select A,B where A contains 'FRANCE' limit 1")))
Many Eyes
Visualising Networks
[ Context – resource discovery in special interest areas ]
http://flic.kr/p/9mvfHh
Put the data to work:
Google CSEblogroll
More views ondelicious…
Graph of folk who follow three or more people (ish) who tweeted a link to soti/rin blog post
Data Cleansing
Google Refine
Stanford Data Wrangler
Google Analytics
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataExplorer.html
http://bit.ly/fzj9yv
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