3/4 Saturday, a world-wide
Open Data Day. In Portland, this event is hosted at OHSU. The following is copied from the event description:
Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments. 
In addition to general open data projects, Open Data Day Portland is co-organized with Data Rescue Portland and will be focusing on contributing to backup efforts for DataRefuge as well as Data.gov.
A couple of dozen people showed up for this day-long event. We are partitioned into two groups: 1) add or complete meta data for any data source to aid computer search 2) scrape data online and output simple description - data mapping, instead of nested links, to facilitate automatic search. There was a talk yesterday on using Python to scrape html, which I didn't attend. Today, there's an R version. So I decided to use R to look at NASA's ocean data. I didn't get very far, being the first time using R. If later, I have time to work on it, will post my result in my github and link it to PDX's Data Rescue's
team github, following this
guide line.
3/4 Saturday, a world-wide Open Data Day. In Portland, this event is hosted at OHSU. The following is copied from the event description:
In addition to general open data projects, Open Data Day Portland is co-organized with Data Rescue Portland and will be focusing on contributing to backup efforts for DataRefuge as well as Data.gov.
