http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/12/this-week-in-open-and-communications-data-land/ Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education Tue, 21 May 2013 18:17:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/12/this-week-in-open-and-communications-data-land/#comment-42144 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:51:19 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=9341#comment-42144 Good share, great article, very usefull for usthanks.

]]> http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/12/this-week-in-open-and-communications-data-land/#comment-29493 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:47:11 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=9341#comment-29493 Hi Stefano – that’s a really interesting take on the Census data on your CountingConkers site, thanks for sharing:-) I don’t suppose you could pop a comment describing it and linking to it over on this post could you? http://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/mathematics-and-statistics/statistics/diary-data-sleuth-getting-grips-the-census-data It would complement that post really well…:-)

]]> http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/12/12/this-week-in-open-and-communications-data-land/#comment-29485 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:27:46 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=9341#comment-29485 The National Pupil Database is one of the most interesting datasets I have ever seen, probably unique in the world. I was checking the tables, it has something like 8,000,000 records with single students’ performance over the last ten years. Theoretically, I think this dataset can be used to assess almost anything about the Education system as well as help new students to choose take decisions. I would like to mention also the COINS dataset, which is a very valuable dataset, although it is also very big and maybe a little bit more complicated in terms of metadata, as you mentioned. The Census data is interesting, I have played a bit with that, I think that it has great potential beyond basic and partial frequencies which are being published at the moment, but someone has to start to look ‘creatively’ in that data (I had a small go on my blog countingconkers.tumblr.com). Congratulations for your blog, I find it always very interesting. Regards, Stefano.

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