Open Data Day 2017: Celebrating data use and openness
Open Data Day is an international celebration where simultaneous activities are done around data communities around the world to learn about open data, liberate closed data, showcase data-driven projects and promote multi-disciplinary collaboration. Latin America celebrated open data in many cities this year. Here you can see all the events, from Argentina to Northern Mexico, that ran throughout the region. In Mexico City, Open Data Day has become over the years an event that joins different communities and no data user can miss. Do take a look to our previous events: 2014, 2015, 2016. How was ODD17 in Mexico City? This year, nearly 180 people gathered for an entire day of activities, good food and craft beer. - 8 workshops on different data user skills: - Public Spending Rally - Showcase of 9 amazing projects
Workshops for Intro and Pro data users
The workshops were divided in introductory and professional tracks so that everyone had a chance to learn. The topics included: statistics for data analysis, data cleaning using Open Refine, data architecture for network analysis, open contracting, big data analysis using cloud-based services, analog visualization and data visualization with D3.
Presentations:
- Cpen Contracting - Katherine Wikrent (Open Contracting) and Rafael García (Transparencia Mexicana) - Statistics and Machine Learning - Jesús Ramos (The DataPub - Datank) - Data Cleaning with Open Refine - Armando Monsivais (Estrategia Digital Nacional)
Workshop videos, recorded and streamed by Software Gurú
- Big data analysis using cloud-based services - Paco Mekler (OPI) - Statistics and Machine Learning - Jesús Ramos (DataPub + Datank) - Visualization using D3 - Irving Morales (Morlan)
Data projects at Open Data Day 2017
- Testigo Social 2.0 (Social Witness) - Transparencia Mexicana Testigo social 2.0 is a citizen participation and transparency platform based on open contracting. Presented by Rafael García. - Puebla Bajo Amenaza (Puebla Under Threat) - LadoB Aranzazú Ayala, journalist from a local digital journalist portal, Lado B, shared how the project “Puebla bajo amenaza” analyzed insecurity and crime data of the state of Puebla. - Desplazamiento forzado (Forced Displacement) - Animal Político Journalistic investigation on forced displacement in Mexico that highlights the regions most affected, the data behind the phenomena and stories on the affected communities. Presented by Paris Martínez - Datos.gob.mx: plataforma y casos de uso - CEDN (open data platform and use cases) Enrique Zapata from the platform Datos.gob.mx shared the strategy behind the data opening of the Mexico government.
- OISE, Data Coral y Observatrump.mx - Smart Data Intelligence Marcel Julien introduced a combo of 3 projects with diverse data content. OISE is an observatory of the Mexican Energy Industry, Data Coral monitors coral biodiversity and Observa Trump, aggregates all media and social media on Donald Trump . - Datos georeferenciados sobre homicidios y modelo predictivo de crimen (Geo-referenced data about homicides and predictive crime model) Stephane Keil presented a predictive statistics analysis on murder and crime in Mexico City 2015 - 2016. - RuidoCDMX: medición de ruido con tecnología abierta (open tech for noise measurement) RuidoCDMX is an oper source project that enables anyone to measure and visualize noise levels. - Mapa del precio de la gasolina (Gas price map) - Gobierno Fácil The gobierno Fácil team presented an interactive map that visualizes gasoline prices at a municipal level in Mexico.
Open Data Rally Awards: #DatosEnLaCalle
For the second year in a row, the Ministry of Finance Budget Transparency team organized a rally so that citizens can use open data to verify the status of public infrastructure projects including their reported expenses. With over 400 participants, the winning teams were: 1st place: @VigilaTuCiudad 2nd place: @ciepmx 3rd place: Pumas Data ¡Thanks for taking data to the streets (#DatosEnLaCalle)!
Thanks to all the data community and friends. Together we celebrate World Open Data Day 2017! :)