What are your users doing on your website or in your store? How do you turn the piles of data your organization generates into actionable information? Where do you get complementary data to make yours more comprehensive? What tech, and what techniques?
The Fifth Elephant is a two day conference on big data.
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Nikhil Pahwa
@nixxin
RTI & Data: Opportunities, Issues & Challenges
Submitted Jul 1, 2012
Section:
Industry & Business
Technical level:
Beginner
Session type:
Discussion
You’ll understand what kind of data you can get from the government and how you can use this data, challenges faced when asking for information, with the data you receive.
Outline
To explain:
- What kind of data can you get from the government via RTI
- What this data can be used for
- How to get government data using RTI
- Issues faced when asking government organizations for RTI. Examples and case studies
- Issues with Data received via RTI
- To discuss ideas for making government data public
Requirements
Projector and a laptop
Speaker bio
Nikhil Pahwa is the founder, Editor & Publisher of MediaNama, a news and analysis website chronicling the development of the digital business in India.
We’ve been using the RTI since March 2011 to get information on government policy and for extracting data which should be in the public domain. We’ve filed for data, been rejected, got incorrect data, filed appeals and published charts and data analysis.
We also launched a site called MediaNamaCharts.com, with interactive charts using Tableau, which we couldn’t sustain.
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