Terve, ajattelin pistää pikasen hakemuksen sisään Pariisin open government data-konffaan heinäkuussa. Jos sieltä nyt sattuis irtoamaan matkastipendi niin voisin mennä mainostamaan Louhos/soRvi-proggista.<br><a href="http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/conference/submit-a-proposal/">http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/conference/submit-a-proposal/</a><br>
<br>Alla alustava abstraktikyhäelmä, ei nyt pakko ole kommentoida jos on muita kiireitä mutta ajattelin kuitenkin pistää nähtäväksi kun on yhteisen projektin promoamista. Kaikki palaute ja parannusideat suoraan tekstiin toki tervetulleita. Deadline on huomenna sunnuntaina eli submittaan ton varmaan iltapäivällä joskus.<br>
<br>Joona, oli hyvä törmäillä tänään ja olis voinut pitempäänkin istuskella jos olis ollu tilaisuus, mut jatketaan tästä sit ens kerralla ja Juusokin messiin.<br><br>Leo<br><br>-----------<br><br>Louhos - Community-driven Source Code for Open Data in Finland<br>
<br>With open data on decision-making, governance, economics and other<br>aspects of society rapidly increasing, there is a clear need for free<br>and open tools for the exploration and utilization of the new<br>information resources. In particular, unified analyses environments<br>
are needed that would allow seamless integration of various analytical<br>tools across different application domains and open data streams from<br>heterogeneous sources. The current solutions are limited to specific<br>applications, such as geographical information, economical analyses<br>
and visualization, forming a bottleneck for modularity and<br>reproducibility of the analyses. Another essential element for<br>realizing the full potential of the new governmental data resources is<br>customization to the local needs within each country or region.<br>
Louhos (<a href="http://louhos.github.com">louhos.github.com</a>) is a community-driven project that aims to<br>collect a comprehensive code base of source code and tools for open<br>data in Finland and to make the analytical tools available through a<br>
single, organized entry point. The project hosts a comprehensive R<br>library soRvi ('turning machine'), which provides programmatic access<br>to hundreds of Finnish data resources, and seamless integration to<br>
professional data analysis and visualization tools. In addition to<br>providing data download and preprocessing routines, we develop and<br>collect analytical tools, and use these tools for new insights into<br>how the society works, through regular blog posts including<br>
reproducible analyses on local political issues with documented source<br>code in local language. The project aims to promote government<br>transparency and received a double award in Private Data opening<br>category in the national Apps4Finland 2011 competition. We call the<br>
open data community to launch a network of similar initiatives across<br>the globe, suited for local standards and needs and to share the<br>efforts, code and fun!<br><br>