Presentation of Fidel Thomet and Marco Sieber at the Zürich R User Group Meetup - March edition (2016) http://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Zurich-R-User-Group/events/229119022/

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«Open Data <3 R»
Fidel Thomet and Marco Sieber
Statistik Stadt Zürich
16. 03. 2016

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Agenda
• Marco:
– Who are we?
– What do we do?
– What is this good for?
• Fidel
– Making things with Open Data and Fidel

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Who we are

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About us
• The City of Zurich runs the Open Data initiative since 2012
• First administration in Switzerland with an Open Data Catalog
• Statistik Stadt Zürich is in charge of it.

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Team Open Data Zürich
• Team: Reto Wick, Fidel Thomet
and Marco Sieber
• Providing information and
support for interested divisional
data owners
• Responsible for the OGD-Portal
• Publishing new data and
maintaining metadata
• Communication about Open Data
on Twitter, Blog and Intranet.
• Cooperation with the Open Data
«Community»

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What do we do?

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What is Open Data anyway?
«OPEN DATA CAN BE FREELY USED, MODIFIED
AND SHARED BY ANYONE FOR ANY PURPOSE»
THE OPEN DEFINITION – OPENDEFINITION.ORG

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©Blue Sky Studios
Paradigm Shift
From hoarding…

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©Blue Sky Studios
Paradigm Shift
From hoarding and quarreling…

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©Blue Sky Studios
Paradigm Shift
… to sharing

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©BlueSkyStudios
Paradigm Shift
• Data belongs to collector (administration)
• Data has value
• Benefit belongs to department
• Data belongs to the public
• Data has value
• Benefit belongs to the public
Collect – use – save it for possible use
Collect – use – share for reuse
©BlueSkyStudios

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Dataowner
Open Data
Team
OGD
Zu öffnende Daten
(Quelle: Wulff & Morgentaler)
Internal role

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• 257 Datasets
• 122 Geodatasets
• Clear licenses
• Machine readable
formats and web
services
Data Catalog - CKAN

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Data formats
WTF?!?
rest
xml
shp
kmz
WMTS
WFS
WMS
json
csv

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Work bench
• Data formats
• Tools
• Manuals

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Opportunities of open data?

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• Reusability!
– Expensively produced data, that’s fincanced by the public, can be
used not just by a few, it can be used by anyone for anything.
• Innovation
– In Zürich more social than economic benefits so far
• More efficient and effective government services
– Do Govs really have to create all Apps / Interfaces themselves?
• New knowledge from combined data sources
• Self-empowerment, Transparency & Participation
What is this good for?

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Exemple 1: In the media last week. About Gov-Apps
Opportunities with open data

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Opportunities with open data
Tagi-Badi-App
Datenblog, 2. July 2015
Idea: Tagi-Badi-App
Success: > 50’000 page impressions
Costs for the City Administration: CHF 0.-
Outlook: further enhancements for this season 2016
Exemple 1: The alternative

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Opportunities with open data
Exemple 2: DDJ - «In den Strassen von Zürich»

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Our Open Data Applications (56)

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Making Things with Open Data and Fidel

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WHERE?
where.ft0.ch

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Open Data <3 R
Bicycle Counting Stations

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VBZ
Target and Actual Arrival Times

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Population
thanks @journocode :)
sketch.ft0.ch/16-03-08_choropleth/

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Dogs

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Thx 4 your attention

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www.stadt-zuerich.ch/opendata