Making Open Data Accessible for Everyone
Welcome to the Open Data Cook Book wiki. A space to develop ideas for simple step-by-step recipes using open data.
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| Exploring survey data with IBM Many Eyes | IBM Many Eyes is a free tool that makes it easy to create quick visualisations of open datasets. In this recipe we explore how to use Many Eyes to analyse data from a survey, focussing on Pie Charts; Bubble Charts and Matrix Plots for looking at one, two and three different variables (questions and answers from the survey) at once. | |
| Fusion Cooking with Foraged Data | Turning a website into a dataset can be easier than you think. This recipe explains how to take tables from a website, turn them into datasets, and then turn combine the tables with Google Fusion Tables. It finishes by explaining how to use the combined table to create a mash-up map. If you already have all the data in one table, you can skip to Steps 4 and 5. | |
| Google forms (part of the Google Docs online office suite) allow you to collect and share data. This recipe isn't about using an existing source of data, but instead allows you to create your own data. You might want to run a survey, or log events that occur. With Google forms you can easily share the data you collect as a spreadsheet. |
