Oleg, Heidi & Florian started the session on Saturday with an introduction to Open Food Data, an exciting new program that begins with hackdays on February 10-11 (there are a few last spots left, sign up quick if you wish to take part). A brief overview from data literacy to data wrangling followed: we quickly covered the basic ideas, and you can visit the School of Data Online Courses page, as well as search their forum for tutorials and more links to explore. Then, we dived in and came up with a big pile of ideas, everyone sharing their topics and interests.
We got divided up into three groups around broader themes – roughly: economics, consumption and sustainability – and worked our way through the ideas generated. A list of relevant datasets emerged through searching open data portals and the World Wide Web.
Several of these seemed especially promising (in terms of openness, accessibility, usefulness…), so we started creating Data Packages in view of helping hackday teams to get started. You can find these at food.schoolofdata.ch
http://food.schoolofdata.ch/food-allergens/
http://food.schoolofdata.ch/food-production/
If you have any follow up questions or feedback, shoot them a note on their forum thread or via Twitter.
Here are upcoming dates from their calendar:
- January 31 – Open Data Meetup, Lausanne
- February 3+4 – Make Zurich 2017 (register here)
- February 10+11 – Open Food Hackdays, Zürich + Lausanne
- March 4 – Open Data Day Hackathon, Zürich (collecting ideas now!)
Quellenangabe:
School of Data in Switzerland by schoolofdata.ch team
c/o Opendata.ch Zurich, 8000 Switzerland
http://food.schoolofdata.ch