Open Data According to Wikipedia, Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. The first article in the list below is just the tip of the iceberg of what data is becoming available on the Internet. All sorts of data, political and otherwise. Feel free to add to the list. This just seems like something UCLA faculty and students can really use. Awesome Public Datasets – continually updated The United States (Code) is on Github http://www.data.gov/ How should Los Angeles license its free GIS data? http://opendatakit.org/ The Open Data Institute Amsterdam City Dashboard: a City as Urban Statistics – Aug. 2014 20 Big Data Repositories You Should Check Out – Sept. 24, 2014 Indexes of Federal Data coming – Feb. 9, 2015 Colorado Upgrades Online Transparency Website – Citizens with improved access to state financial records – April 29, 2015 The state of California has launched a new Web site with government and lobbyist information – May 6, 2015 Announcing the new Open Data Handbook – May 13, 2015 – http://opendatahandbook.org/ The Causes, Costs and Consequences of Bad Government Data – June 24, 2015 The World Bank Group Archives goes online – Aug. 18, 2015 Adopt A Department of Education Dataset – Aug. 28, 2015 New Census Web Tool Helps Business Owners Make Data Driven Decisions – Sept. 9, 2015 Or here’s a direct link to the Census Business Builder: Small Business Edition White House Launches The Opportunity Project, Utilizing Open Data to Build Stronger Ladders of Opportunity for All – March 7, 2016 4 Ways to Use Government Data to Automate & Improve Your Life – March 21, 2016 ‘Open data’: Why it’s making waves across Canada – May 1, 2016 What’s Wrong with Open-Data Sites—and How We Can Fix Them – May 2, 2016 How open rail data is changing the way passengers travel – July 4, 2016 The NEH “Chronicling America” Challenge: Using Big Data to Ask Big Questions – Aug. 4, 2016 How open data helps citizens to know the law – Aug. 11, 2016 Expanded Corporate Crime Database Highlights Fraud by Healthcare Companies and Banks & Violation Tracker 2.0 – Sep. 26, 2016 open. NASA is an open data portal with extensive data sets, code repositories, and application program interfaces (APIs) available to the general public. Data Stories highlights how individuals and organizations around the world are making use of open data. – Oct. 7, 2016 Resources to Find the Data You Need, 2016 Edition – Nathan Yau, FlowingData blog – Nov. 11, 2016 Sunlight Foundation launches national open data policy portal at www.opendatapolicies.org – Dec. 9, 2016 Tips and Tricks for Using World Bank’s New Data Tool – Feb. 3, 2017 New Open Data Homepage As New York City Celebrates 5 Years Of Open Data – March 7, 2017 Open data — Canada’s ‘new natural resource’ — proves harder to mine than expected – May 15, 2017 San Diego Among First to Build Open Data Portal at https://data.sandiego.gov/datasets/ – June 5, 2017 Reaching the Next Level of Open Data Maturity – Arriving at Open Data 3.0 – June 12, 2017