The Data Journalism Handbook by Jonathan Gray Lucy Chambers & Liliana Bounegru

Author:Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers & Liliana Bounegru [Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers, and Liliana Bounegru]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism
ISBN: 9781449337209
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 2012-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

Browse Data Sites and Services

Over the last few years, a number of dedicated data portals, data hubs, and other data sites have appeared on the web. These are a good place to get acquainted with the kinds of data that is out there. For starters you might like to take a look at:

Figure 4-1. datacatalogs.org (Open Knowledge Foundation)

Official data portals

The government’s willingness to release a given dataset will vary from country to country. A growing number of countries are launching data portals (inspired by the U.S.’s data.gov and the U.K.’s data.gov.uk) to promote the civic and commercial reuse of government information. An up-to-date, global index of such sites can be found at http://datacatalogs.org/. Another handy site is the Guardian World Government Data, a meta search engine that includes many international government data catalogues.

The Data Hub

A community-driven resource run by the Open Knowledge Foundation that makes it easy to find, share, and reuse openly available sources of data, especially in ways that are machine-automated.

ScraperWiki

An online tool to make the process of extracting “useful bits of data easier so they can be reused in other apps, or rummaged through by journalists and researchers.” Most of the scrapers and their databases are public and can be reused.

World Bank and United Nations data portals

These services provide high-level indicators for all countries, often for many years in the past.

Buzzdata, Infochimps, and DataMarket

Emerging startups that aim to build communities around data sharing and resale.

DataCouch

A place to upload, refine, share, and visualize your data.

Freebase

An interesting Google subsidiary that provides “an entity graph of people, places and things, built by a community that loves open data.”

Research data

There are numerous national and disciplinary aggregators of research data, such as the UK Data Archive. While there will be lots of data that is free at the point of access, there will also be much data that requires a subscription, or which cannot be reused or redistributed without asking permission first.

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