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Some of what happened on the day: http://opendatahackathonoxford.posterous.com/

An Oxford Open Data Hack Day was held on December 4th, hosted at the offices of White October:

3 The Gallery (Unit 3 is just down the side of the building)
Marston Street,
just off the Cowley Road,
East Oxford
Open Street Map: http://osm.org/go/eutD6HPKx-
Street View: http://bit.ly/bzx90z
15 minutes by bus from Oxford Railway Station / Short walk from 'The Plain' stop on the Oxford Tube bus from London.

Questions/comments to tim@practicalparticipation.co.uk.


The Oxford Team

If you have any questions, problems or special requests then you can contact any of these guys:

Agenda

We are going to be joining the Videoring at 1630 GMT

Projects

Projects worked on

Project Ideas

Got an idea for a project? Jot ideas below:

It might be interesting as well to explore creating scrapers for committee meeting minutes etc such as these. OpenlyLocal.com is also not grabbing much Oxfordshire County Council at the moment. See [1].

Interested Participants

Please use the registration form so we know your skills and interests, allowing us to tailor the event to the skills available... It also means we know how much pizza and beer to buy :)

There is also a Lanyrd.com event page for the day

You can also add your name below to let others know you're going.

Name / Contact / Preferred-role / Any particular project or issue you are interested in working on


Datasets of Interest

Add datasets that might be of interest below. We'd also love to see some Oxford/Oxfordshire focussed sets for hackery

Open Knowledge Foundation

Not for profit organisation dedicated to promoting open data http://okfn.org/ also see the CKAN catalogue at http://www.ckan.net/ which is behind data.gov.uk and other open data sets.

Data.gov.uk

Any national datasets at http://data.gov.uk which could have Oxford/Oxfordshire data pulled out of them (e.g. EduBase)

Police API

http://policeapi.rkh.co.uk/ - (need to apply for API Key in advance)

Charities data

http://opencharities.org/ - full dataset contains details of all UK Charities; could filter for local charities.

Jobcentre Plus Databases

Scraped list of all recent vacancies.

ftp://ftp.zois.co.uk/pub/jcp

Isis Flood and River Flow

Some historical data on Isis Flags is available from the Isis Level site.

http://www.atm.ox.ac.uk/rowing/river.html

Openly Local

Oxford City Council on Openly Local and other local councils also - provides list of Councillors, Committees etc. (There may be a useful job to be done improving the local scrapers for local council sites...)

http://openlylocal.com/councils/350-Oxford-City-Council

http://openlylocal.com/councils

Planing Alerts

http://www.planningalerts.com/

Details of local planning applications (Example query) - also may be a need to check and improve other local scrapers.

Freedom of Information

Freedom of Information requests and responses. Incomplete and often in non machine readable formats, but some very interesting stuff none the less. They do have an Oxford(shire) section.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/

Oxford Mail

Not an API, but could be scrapable

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/li/

Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform

British Social Attitudes

Every year the British Social Attitudes survey asks around 3000 people what it's like to live in Britain and how they think Britain is run. The survey tracks people's changing social, political and moral attitudes and informs the development of public policy.

http://www.natcen.ac.uk/study/british-social-attitudes-26th-report

Understanding Society

Understanding Society is a world leading study of the socio-economic circumstances and attitudes of 100,000 individuals in 40,000 British households. It is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and run by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER). The study allows for deeper analysis of a wide range of sections of the population as they respond to regional, national and international change.

http://www.understandingsociety.org.uk/

Citizenship Survey Since 2001

The Citizenship Survey (formerly known as the Home Office Citizenship Survey, or HOCS) has been commissioned every two years. Approximately 10,000 adults in England and Wales (plus an additional boost sample of 5,000 adults from minority ethnic groups) are asked questions covering a wide range of issues, including race equality, faith, feelings about their community, volunteering and participation. In 2003 there were supplementary booster samples of children (eight and nine-year-olds), young people (10 to 15-year-olds), and 20 local areas.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.communities.gov.uk/archived/general-content/communities/citizenshipsurvey/

Defra’s Survey

of Public Attitudes and Behaviours Toward the Environment

It gives a representative picture of what people in England think, and how they behave, across a range of issues relevant to the environment, including transport and waste recycling. It informs the segmentation model which looks at how environmental attitudes, values, current behaviours and motivations and barriers are packaged together for defined segments of the population. It has implications for policy and communications development as well as identifying areas for further research.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/evidence/statistics/environment/pubatt/download/pubattsum2007.pdf

NatCen

They carry out and analyse research studies in the fields of social and public policy including extensive research among members of the public.

http://www.natcen.ac.uk/about-us

Survey Resource Network

The Survey Resources Network (SRN) is a new service funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to co-ordinate and develop ESRC activities related to survey research methods.

The run similar sessions to your ‘open hack day’ but call them workshops and placements whereby people attend a specific workshop on a particular data set/survey and then are offered placements with the individual survey ‘providers’ A list of their timetable and who runs the survey is listed here:

http://www.surveynet.ac.uk/

http://www.surveynet.ac.uk/ssp/workshops/scheduled.asp - this may come in handy when looking for project leads, designers and developers.

Government Spending

The Guardian have released data on government spending:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/nov/19/government-spending-data#

Visualisation competitions

Mozilla have a nicely timed competition to vizualize their usage data. This would be fun to enter and share the prize with! https://testpilot.mozillalabs.com/testcases/a-week-life-2/aggregated-data.html (added by Andy Cotgreave)

Visualizing.org has a nice medical challenge with a great prize - attendand at TEDMED.

University datasets (incl. University of Oxford)

The Higher Education Statistics Agency make available summary stats. They also provide insitution level XLS files.

The Computing Services have made OxPoints available under a CC0 license. OxPoints is an RDF dataset describing the department and colleges of the University, the buildings they occupy, and the political and geospatial relationships between them.

There is an interactive view of the Student Stats on the University's website. Data could be scraped via the Download data button, I guess. More detailed student statistics for University of Oxford are found in Tableau files. The downloadable files are just zips - they could be unpacked and the data extracted. The underlying data will be harder to extract.

Norrington data (which ranks colleges) can be downloaded.

The University of Oxford Careers service provides data on Graduate Destinations.

Useful tools

See Also

Oxford, UK Showcase

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