Open Source Data Journalism – Happening now at Buzz Data
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#2Sounds cool!
Re: Open Source Data Journalism – Happening now at Buzz Data
#3I've often thought of building a community developed series of visualization plugins to drive off this kind of data. Getting the data and making it fungible is a pretty cool first step.
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#4lots of overlap with http://scraperwiki.com but lacking open source or APIs. I dig their emphasis on social but I hope they improve the data portion and focus less on the buzz
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#5lots of overlap with http://scraperwiki.com but lacking open source or APIs. I dig their emphasis on social but I hope they improve the data portion and focus less on the buzz
BuzzData's UX designer + front end developer here.
We're definitely working on all this ;) - stay tuned.
Re: Open Source Data Journalism – Happening now at Buzz Data
#6lots of overlap with http://scraperwiki.com but lacking open source or APIs. I dig their emphasis on social but I hope they improve the data portion and focus less on the buzz
Thanks for the feedback! We love ScraperWiki, too.
Our initial target audience is not developers, which means that our MVP focuses on UX and making data not-scary for non-technical individuals.
Could you expand on what you mean by lacking open source? ScraperWiki isn't open source either, right? Neither is GitHub. We're interested in knowing what you'd do with it if it was open source. Big ideas?
Re: Open Source Data Journalism – Happening now at Buzz Data
#7lots of overlap with http://scraperwiki.com but lacking open source or APIs. I dig their emphasis on social but I hope they improve the data portion and focus less on the buzz
Thanks for the feedback! We love ScraperWiki, too. Our initial target audience is not developers, which means that our MVP focuses on UX and making data not-scary for non-technical individuals. Could you expand on what you mean by lacking open source? ScraperWiki isn't open source either, right? Neither is GitHub. We're interested in knowing what you'd do with it if it was open source. Big ideas?
For the record: ScraperWiki is about %95 open source: https://bitbucket.org/ScraperWiki/scraperwiki/src and Github has an incredible open source presence: https://github.com/github. Meanwhile... https://github.com/buzzdata
I'm not trolling, I'm just a big fan of open data -- especially community driven approaches.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the feedback! We love ScraperWiki, too. Our initial target audience is not developers, which means that our MVP focuses on UX and making data not-scary for non-technical individuals. Could you expand on what you mean by lacking open source? ScraperWiki isn't open source either, right? Neither is GitHub. We're interested in knowing what you'd do with it if it was open source. Big ideas?
For the record: ScraperWiki is about %95 open source: https://bitbucket.org/ScraperWiki/scraperwiki/src and Github has an incredible open source presence: https://github.com/github . Meanwhile... https://github.com/buzzdata I'm not trolling, I'm just a big fan of open data -- especially community driven approaches.
Awesome! We're building a pretty great community.
I can't wait to see your contributions.