oaklandwatch [soylentnews.org] writes:
Hundreds of different data-hacking events are being held around the globe this weekend
to celebrate International Open Data Day [thenewstack.io]. It's the fifth installment of an annual event promoting government data-sharing with a series of loosely joined hackathons, to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments," according to
the event's web site [opendataday.org]. "Data science is a team sport," says Megan Smith, the former Google executive turned U.S. CTO, who points out over 200,000 new federal data sets have been opened to the public since 2009
on Data.gov [data.gov]. Each hackathon will culminate with a demo or brainstorm proposal that can be shared with the other participating groups around the world.
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