[Sorvi-admin] paris abstract

Joona Lehtomäki joona.lehtomaki at cs.helsinki.fi
Sun Apr 1 12:45:54 CEST 2012


Moikka,

On 31.3.2012 20:42, Leo Lahti wrote:
> 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.
> http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/conference/submit-a-proposal/
>
> 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.

Oikein hyvältä näyttää, eipä minulla sen kummempaa lisättävää tuohon ole.

> Joona, oli hyvä törmäillä tänään ja olis voinut pitempäänkin istuskella
> jos olis ollu tilaisuus, mut jatketaan tästä sit ens kerralla ja
> Juusokin messiin.

Oli tosiaan hyvä nähdä taas pitkästä aikaa ja otetaan uusiksi! Kuten 
eilen taas huomattiin, tekemistä riittäisi :)

Joona

> Leo
>
> -----------
>
> Louhos - Community-driven Source Code for Open Data in Finland
>
> With open data on decision-making, governance, economics and other
> aspects of society rapidly increasing, there is a clear need for free
> and open tools for the exploration and utilization of the new
> information resources. In particular, unified analyses environments
> are needed that would allow seamless integration of various analytical
> tools across different application domains and open data streams from
> heterogeneous sources. The current solutions are limited to specific
> applications, such as geographical information, economical analyses
> and visualization, forming a bottleneck for modularity and
> reproducibility of the analyses. Another essential element for
> realizing the full potential of the new governmental data resources is
> customization to the local needs within each country or region.
> Louhos (louhos.github.com <http://louhos.github.com>) is a
> community-driven project that aims to
> collect a comprehensive code base of source code and tools for open
> data in Finland and to make the analytical tools available through a
> single, organized entry point. The project hosts a comprehensive R
> library soRvi ('turning machine'), which provides programmatic access
> to hundreds of Finnish data resources, and seamless integration to
> professional data analysis and visualization tools. In addition to
> providing data download and preprocessing routines, we develop and
> collect analytical tools, and use these tools for new insights into
> how the society works, through regular blog posts including
> reproducible analyses on local political issues with documented source
> code in local language. The project aims to promote government
> transparency and received a double award in Private Data opening
> category in the national Apps4Finland 2011 competition. We call the
> open data community to launch a network of similar initiatives across
> the globe, suited for local standards and needs and to share the
> efforts, code and fun!
>
>
>
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