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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor (slightly modified)

 

If decisions are made based on personality and emotions instead of data and discussion, it will make everyone “stupid”. Go somewhere else.

Jason Crawford, How to work with “stupid” people

When we quantify ourselves, there isn’t the imperative to see through our daily existence into a truth buried at a deeper level. Instead, the self of our most trivial thoughts and actions, the self that, without technical help, we might barely notice or recall, is understood as the self we ought to get to know.

Gary Wolf, The Data-Driven Life [via Buster Benson]

NYC's "Big Apps" Contest

“For the first stage of the contest, which will be called Big Apps, the city will release what Bloomberg described as a ‘huge volume of data’ from various city agencies. (That means the data will be made available in a machine-readable format that’s conducive to programming.) He gave the example of creating a mobile application out of the Health Department’s restaurant grades.” [via]

It would be preferable for government to understand providing reusable data, rather than providing websites, as the core of its online publishing responsibility.

Robinson, Yu, Zeller, and Felten, Government Data and the Invisible Hand [via]