Introduction
There are many different ways to access data one of them is open data. Open that is where Dad is just available on the internet for free for everybody. But how does this specific type of data impact the community? That’s what the article linked here goes over.
Summary of Article
Vertical first talks about questioning ownership and how open data just doesn’t always have to be within government portals it can be in a lot of other places as well for example kaggle. Then the article gives an actual real case study of Philadelphia in which ate members created data Philly which helped with Transit data needs as open source which shows the community power when it comes to open data. After the article gets into Community Partnerships and how Partnerships with strong institutions such as governments nonprofits or businesses can play crucial roles in fostering collaboration with the community. Next the article gets into the shared stewardship aspect of opening out of the community. This means that data shared between the government and the community stakeholders proposing collaboration and how that can strengthen the overall data infrastructure. Finally the article transitions to critical questions which highlights how it’s important to keep asking questions and to keep innovating when storing using and driving value from this type of data.
My Take
Overall I enjoyed this article. I liked how it went into specifics as an example of its point with the Philadelphia case study and the data Philly. I also really liked how it provided both the benefits and the drawbacks of this the case study is the benefit and the critical question does the drawback show its nuanced perspective and lack of obvious bias? I also really liked how the article was written in the author’s writing stuff because it kept me engaged and interested throughout the entire article.
Conclusion
Overall I really enjoyed this article both the authors writing style as well as the lack of office bias made a very credible and very enjoyable as a read. it was also very informative and I really do recommend you give it a read if you have time with the link here.