Today I co-ran a session called Ars Combinatoria at Transmediale. From the blurb: As a young man the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz was interested in creating an ‘art of combinations’, which would allow people to create interesting new inventions from a set of basic elements. The ‘Ars Combinatoria’ project is about creating new works [...]
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Visualising Europe’s Energy
For the last two weeks I’ve been working hard with some people at the Open Knowledge Foundation to make a new visual tool to make it easier to understand European energy. It was launched today to coincide with a big meeting on energy at the European Council in Brussels. You can find it here: http://energy.publicdata.eu/ [...]
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Interview in Zeit Online about open data in Europe
Last week I was interviewed by Zeit Online about the about the current state of open government data across Europe, and about the Eurostat Hackday which took place in several European cities last Thursday. The German translation of the interview is available on the Zeit Online website, and the full English version was published on [...]
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Historical Hooks: ‘X Hundred Years Ago Today, …’
Our daily lives are permeated by the past. Newspapers are full of commemorations of persons and occurrences we deem to be culturally and historically significant. Calendars are stuffed with births, deaths, battles, inventions, catastophes, riots, murders and miracles. “X hundred years ago today”, we are told, ships were sunk, saints were born, cures were found, [...]
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Introducing: The Public Domain Review
One of the great things about the public domain is that very nearly everything eventually falls into it. It is only a matter of time before every work — every opera, fresco, novella, tapestry, napkin scribble and lecture note — gracefully ascends into the big commons in the sky. While the amount of time it [...]
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Where Does My Money Go? project proposal
Below is the original draft proposal for the Where does my money go? project, from 2nd April 2007: ‘Where does my money go?’: Promoting transparency and citizen engagement through interactive visualizations of government economic data 2nd April 2007 The British public have exceptional access to official documents and datasets detailing the operations of the official [...]
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