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Last month, craft brewery Brewdog announced it will release all its recipes for free. Beer geek, hom...
The ODI’s Jeni Tennison shares her frustration in trying to access ‘free’ Land Registry property dat...
Drawing on poems by R.D. Laing, ODI Technical Director Jeni Tennison explores ‘knots’ that open data...
Stuart Harrison discusses the ODI Labs team's foray into putting open data into a blockchain – and w...
Should open data be published with guidelines on its use and limits? Senior Consultant Leigh Dodds t...
ODI Head of Robots Sam Pikesley uncovers some new features in Rspec in his search for alternative to...
Blockchains are a distributed append-only way of storing data. They are reliant on a large network f...
ODI Labs recently delivered a talk to the Sydney Blockchain Workshops, asking whether blockchains ar...
Data stored in blockchains cannot be changed, which means that personal data they contain cannot be ...
How do we make sure data infrastructure is always available, and always trustworthy? Are blockchains...
ODI Web Developer Stuart Harrison suggests schemes that will motivate local councils to publish open...
Legal grey areas can create risks for organisations that rely on data-based products and services fr...
Keeping personal data separate from open data is a core principle to protect people from harm. Anony...
We're launching a new tool today called __[Open Data Pathway](http://pathway.theodi.org)__. It's a s...
During the last week of February, the ODI teamed up with the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) ...
We often refer to open data as a public good, but what does this mean? And what does it imply about ...
The Ordnance Survey has adopted the Open Government Licence (OGL) as the default licence for all of ...
Comparing the 5-star scheme with the Open Data Certificates...
The decision about which licence to use is one of the most important steps in publishing an open dat...
This is a transcript of my part of the ODI Friday Lunchtime Lecture on 19th December...
Ulrich Atz shares his perspectives of data as culture, and explains three trends that suggest how da...
Thinking without data portals: searchable data...
From 17-18 November the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank ran two days dedicat...
CSV stands for comma-separated values. It is a simple format for tabular data and relatively easy to...
What follows is a, technical, collection of tips. It assumes you are familiar with base R, how to in...