Rufus Pollock

We’ve just started a mini-project called Bad Data. Bad Data provides real-world examples of how not to publish data. It showcases the poorly structured, the mis-formatted, and the just plain... Read More – ‘Bad Data: real-world examples of how not to do data’.

Back on April 17 2012 the Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund attempted to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. There was some pretty interesting reading in their petition for bankruptcy... Read More – ‘Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund Bankruptcy’.

Data Issues is a prototype initiative to track “issues” with data using a simple bug tracker—in this case, GitHub Issues. We’ve all come across “issues” with data, whether it’s... Read More – ‘Tracking Issues with Data the Simple Way’.

Herewith is a report on recent improvements to PublicBodies.org, our project in Open Knowledge Foundation Labs project to provide “a URL (and information) on every “public body” - that’s... Read More – ‘PublicBodies.org – Update no. 2’.

Someone just pointed me at this post from Ben Balter about Data as Code in which he emphasizes the analogies between data and code (and especially open data and open-source – e.g. “data is where... Read More – ‘Data as Code Deja-Vu’.