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Questions tagged [uses-of-open-data]

Uses of Open Data consists of ways and methods to utilize Open Data in attempts to achieve its maximum benefits

Uses of Open Data typically are real-world cases, preferably live on the web, in which Open Data has been employed to achieve benefits/goals/etc., within a site/app.

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Open Badges/Tin Can to open up credential & learning data

What are the differences between http://tincanapi.com/ & http://openbadges.org/ ? I think they are both great ways in opening up credential data, but was wondering in what specific situations you would use one or the other? Both as provider of open…
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IMDB dataset on Kaggle and copyright explanation

I was surfing on kaggle and I found this dataset https://www.kaggle.com/deepmatrix/imdb-5000-movie-dataset it contains data from 5000 IMDB movies. I was surprised since i thought that this would be copyright infringement, could someone explain me or…
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How does a company upgrade open data to the point where it is proprietary, or copyrightable?

Ideas and facts are not "copyrightable." But original expressions of ideas and facts are. What are ways to upgrade open data so that copyright can be obtained on the database? Things that I can think of include formatting, presentation, aggregation,…
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Taxonomy of web pages for illustrating the reach of "open data"

I would like to do two things: First, I want to draw some kind of structure of the web (data) in order to divert discussions about loose term "big data" to specific data topics. Second, within this structure, I want to highlight the subset which is…
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Data centers: Looking for dataset on location, capacity, company / owner and year of establishment

I am looking for a dataset on the location, capacity, company / owner and year of establishment for data centers (eg. of Google, Amazon, Facebook). Any suggestiosn are welcome.
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Where I should store (public) dataset for opensource project?

I have a project. It's basically doing 2 things: - collect data - do something with the data The codeI use is open source and available on GitHub. The crawler that collects the dataset works slow (400 pages per minute), and the resulting dataset…
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Best way to get Open Data Community to Engage (Attend/Volunteer) at The White House Open Data Summit?

Wondering what are the best methods/approaches to informing the Open Data Community of the upcoming Open Data Innovation Summit at the White House. Attendees and volunteers are needed, and anyone with interest in Open Data that will be in the DC…
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Visualizing what airlines fly in the US Airports

I am interested in understanding which US airports are used by various airlines. One could visualize this with a spreadsheet: ​ ​ This examples shows that Southwest flies out of Midway, but not O'Hare. Delta flies out of O'Hare, but not Midway. …
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About Dataset：HYCOM Water Temperature and Salinity

I am using the dataset HYCOM Water Temperature and Salinity for my work. However, I find its image ID a bit confusing. For example, for the ImageCollection filtered by Date of '2019-01-01' to '2019-01-02', there are 8 images for one specific day…
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Is there a way to filter, so that I only get reactions where SUMATRIPTAN was listed as suspect drug?

I'm trying to get the number of reactions for a certain drug, but only where the drug was classified as suspect drug (drugcharacterization=1). I tried:…
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what does those 2 types of values in column "Age" exactly mean in “horse-colic.data” dataset?

I am learning horse-colic dataset. there are 2 types of values in column 2, 1 and 9. dose that mean a record (a horse) is 1 year old or 9 years old?
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multivariate competing risks failure-time data set

I'm looking for a failure-time (survival analysis) data set which is - Multivariate or clustered (Multiple individuals are observed in one sampling unit. For example, family members in a family) - Competing risks (There are multiple failure…
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What is the simplest way to gather twitter data ongoing?

I would like it to go into a google sheet. I thought I'd give super metrics a try, but it doesn't return data related to my keyword. I'm using the free trial to try it out. With SuperMetrics I tried two ways. 1 - I set up my own query and got…
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Ground data(real data) for precipitation(rainfall/mm) of India

I need recent 10-15 years datasets of precipitation(rainfall/mm) for India. I have obtained many projection datasets but I need real datasets. Requirements: Real Datasets datasets of 2005-2020 1 degree * 1 degree 3 hourly or 6 hourly datasets India…
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data on maintenance costs in EPC sector

I have to do a PoC on PowerBI for predictive maintenance (both for unscheduled and scheduled maintenance). I saw this article about fluor and am looking for open data that would allow to discover similar insights :…
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