Great idea, Guardian!
The Guardian, a UK newspaper, has decided to free its facts. Not only is their Data Store available to the public to peruse and use, but they want to hear from us what we discover in their data. (By the way, that’s “store” in the sense of storage facility, not in the sense of a business.) The Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, sums it up:
Every day we will publish the raw statistics behind the news and make it easy to export in any form you like. It is about freedom of information. But it is not a one-way process – we want you to tell us what you have done with the data and what we should do with it. The facts are sacred — and they belong to all of us.
They have datasets on demographics, health, education, the military, the economy, the environment…. I’m very impressed. If you’ve ever tried to do research in the social sciences, you know firsthand how difficult it is to get your hands on files like these. It’s fantastic that someone is making some of them freely available and collecting them in one place.
If you want to see the Guardian’s data, head over to their Data Store now!
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