The document discusses open data and issues around using and citing open data sources. It mentions generating charts from open data, updating online course materials, and questions around when data can be considered truly open. It also provides guidelines for citing reports from the Pew Internet & American Life Project and notes that raw data may require cleaning and analysis to be useful.
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“ you have a slightly broader brief. I’d like you to choose a story about going to find something out and then finding the data to support it, (for example the Olympics medal map story?). Maybe give a focus a glimpse of a data rich world with data literate users. You can challenge the content providers if you like, you can fight the corner of the people we hope will be using open content/data. Maximum 5 minutes. ”