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Pete Forde

@dataliteracy

Data: It's not just for hackers and economists anymore.

 Toronto, ON
dataliteracy.org
Joined June 2010
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Sometimes books get written as planned. Sometimes you give up. Other times you hire a CEO, raise funding and start up: http://is.gd/A6Rhyx
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David Crow@davidcrow29 Sep 2010
Great list of demos for #DemoCamp with @fredwilson http://bit.ly/bhJTA0 @visibli @guestlistapp @taskave @tophatmonocle @dataliteracy
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David Eaves
@daeaves21 Sep 2010
Open Data, Open City Mayoral Insight report by @martinprosperiT 's @kimberlysilk @jwhyteappleby http://bit.ly/arJFEY #opendata #TOvote
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I'm thinking of organizing a regular meetup for Toronto folks looking to talk about open data. Interested?
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Have you seen me speak at a conference? I'd appreciate a review on SpeakerWiki! http://bit.ly/9vzTd2
Audio: Pete keynotes on Data Literacy, @Unspaced and Open Data at FOSSLC http://bit.ly/drRep1
Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?_r=2&hp
Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s (Published 2010)

Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s (Published 2010)

The key to a collaborative Alzheimer’s project was an ambitious agreement to share all the data, making every single finding public immediately.

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David Eaves
@daeaves13 Aug 2010
RT @jaggeree: RT @sarahebourne: "Potholes are the gateway drug to civic engagement" @seeclickfix #isb2 #opendata
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It could be the very nature of data is such that it’s open in the first place. You can’t stop a free person from knowing that it’s raining.
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A video of Pete speaking about Data Literacy and @Unspaced at @theworkinggroup http://vimeo.com/13684848
New blog post: Upcoming speaking engagements http://is.gd/dCIqe
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Pete Forde@peteforde22 Jul 2010
Hey Toronto folks, I'm going to be talking about @dataliteracy tomorrow night at this cool @theworkinggroup event: http://is.gd/dCvsp
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Would you use a pastie for tabular data?
An excellent talk from #DataLiteracy patron saint Peter Norvig, the director of research at Google: http://is.gd/dtklB
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Open data today is like the Yahoo! web directory circa 1995: lists of lists, all over the place — and it's unsustainable.
Hello World from DataLiteracy.org HQ! After my talk at GovCamp the cat is out of the bag: I'm writing a book on understanding open data.
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