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up vote 26 down vote

added by Dmitry Kachaev Feb 22 '13 at 17:51

<comments removed> @Gray B. Please do not use comments to answer these questions. This proposal is not part of a Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define what is on and off topic for a site. Comments are here to help improve the questions; not to answer them. See What is the rationale for deleting answers? Thank you. – Robert Cartaino Apr 1 '13 at 19:14

Remember that votes above 10 do not help a proposal to complete its definition phase, so many people consider every vote over 10 to be a wasted vote. It is far more useful to use your vote to approve of a question with fewer than 10 votes. Also, if a question you have already voted on now has more than 10 votes, remember that you can remove your up vote and put it on another suitable question, to help a proposal get through the definition phase more quickly. – Mark Booth Apr 5 '13 at 23:49

up vote 24 down vote

added by Dmitry Kachaev Feb 22 '13 at 17:30

<comments removed> Please do not use comments to answer these questions. This proposal is not part of a Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define what is on and off topic for a site. Comments are here to help improve the questions; not to answer them. See What is the rationale for deleting answers? Thank you. – Robert Cartaino Apr 1 '13 at 19:15

up vote 23 down vote

added by Dmitry Kachaev Feb 22 '13 at 18:06

<comments removed> @GovInTranches Please do not use comments to answer these questions. This proposal is not part of a Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define what is on and off topic for a site. Comments are here to help improve the questions; not to answer them. See What is the rationale for deleting answers? Thank you. – Robert Cartaino Apr 1 '13 at 19:15

up vote 15 down vote

added by rjmajma Feb 22 '13 at 18:47

up vote 15 down vote

added by Jay Guarneri Feb 27 '13 at 16:25

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added by Marina Martin Mar 3 '13 at 2:37

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added by Dmitry Kachaev Feb 22 '13 at 17:35

up vote 13 down vote

added by rjmajma Feb 22 '13 at 18:36

up vote 13 down vote

added by rjmajma Feb 27 '13 at 15:14

<comments removed> @jfenton Please do not use comments to answer these questions. This proposal is not part of a Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define what is on and off topic for a site. Comments are here to help improve the questions; not to answer them. See What is the rationale for deleting answers? Thank you. – Robert Cartaino Apr 1 '13 at 19:17

up vote 13 down vote

added by nicksuch Feb 27 '13 at 20:40

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added by Andy Shu Xin Mar 20 '13 at 9:33

	This may not be the best wording, but this is a really common and important question. Perhaps better: "How do I extract structured data from a PDF?" – Jonathan Stray Apr 3 '13 at 14:40
	@Jonathan Stray Thank you for the suggestion. Your version is more succinct and general. – Andy Shu Xin Apr 5 '13 at 10:16
	Or even, "How do I get data out of a PDF and make it structured?" – OmahaJoe Apr 8 '13 at 18:49

up vote 12 down vote

added by Ryan Panchadsaram Feb 22 '13 at 17:38

	Your question will be better if you specify which country – THelper Feb 27 '13 at 8:25
	<comments removed> @Jason Please do not use comments to answer these questions. This proposal is not part of a Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define what is on and off topic for a site. Comments are here to help improve the questions; not to answer them. See What is the rationale for deleting answers? Thank you. – Robert Cartaino Apr 1 '13 at 19:16

up vote 12 down vote

added by user1839486 Mar 12 '13 at 16:23

up vote 12 down vote

added by Gray B. Mar 13 '13 at 21:17

NCBI count?.. GenBank, etc.? Or I dont understand anything here :-( ? – qPCR4vir Mar 20 '13 at 21:20

up vote 11 down vote

added by rjmajma Feb 22 '13 at 17:58

up vote 11 down vote

added by nihonjinrxs Feb 24 '13 at 5:40

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added by chrisjlee Mar 14 '13 at 18:58

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added by Andy Shu Xin Mar 17 '13 at 20:08

A reall excellent question. For an example of the often complicated answers, see uscc.gov/Research/… – Jonathan Stray Apr 9 '13 at 21:22

up vote 11 down vote

added by Jonathan Stray Apr 3 '13 at 14:41

up vote 10 down vote

added by Dmitry Kachaev Feb 22 '13 at 18:02

Wouldn't such questions be covered by GIS? – TildalWave Mar 5 '13 at 0:52

agreed there is some overlap with GIS, but I believe Open Data would be more the place to cover the MANY format conversion, cleanup, geocoding and other practical problems that arise when trying to use data from diverse sources of varying quality. – Jonathan Stray Apr 9 '13 at 21:18

up vote 10 down vote

added by rjmajma Feb 22 '13 at 18:04

Are you asking about feasibility or legality? Either way you should be more specific about which weather data you're referring to. – dvogel Mar 15 '13 at 17:36

up vote 10 down vote

added by Ian Kalin Feb 22 '13 at 22:52

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added by Ian Kalin Feb 24 '13 at 15:49

up vote 10 down vote

added by FlatMerge Feb 27 '13 at 23:04

Can you be a bit more specific? Do you mean, turning a spreadsheet into an API without having to download database software? Or is it something more like Socrata? – Konklone Mar 13 '13 at 14:39

Agreed not a precise question, but IMHO this is exactly the sort of problem that this forum should help solve. – Jonathan Stray Apr 9 '13 at 21:23

up vote 10 down vote

added by Marina Martin Mar 3 '13 at 2:36

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added by Gray B. Mar 4 '13 at 22:57

This question could be moved to the GitHub Q&A site: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/43637/github – hadinbe Mar 8 '13 at 17:53

up vote 10 down vote

added by user1839486 Mar 12 '13 at 15:31

The list could be long, and there is no right answer. I would rather ask "how" companies can use open health data to help individuals manage their health. That's more open-ended, and answers will describe the processes, tools, and policies that these company do or could use or implement. – Nicolas Apr 9 '13 at 22:19

up vote 10 down vote

added by Gray B. Mar 13 '13 at 21:12

up vote 10 down vote

added by Jason Hoekstra Mar 14 '13 at 15:41

This should be about open data. Services often hide the full dataset. I think the question should be "What data is available for getting the location of an address?" – Nicolas Apr 9 '13 at 22:22

up vote 10 down vote

added by Jason Hoekstra Mar 14 '13 at 15:50

up vote 10 down vote

added by Jason Hoekstra Mar 14 '13 at 15:54

up vote 10 down vote

added by Tom Morris Mar 14 '13 at 18:23

	Non-US questions are entirely welcome. – Konklone Mar 14 '13 at 21:04
	Most people we reached out to are US based, so that's why questions are skewed towards US .gov data. Everyone else are welcome to join since it definitely will make a stronger open data community. – Dmitry Kachaev Mar 15 '13 at 5:31
	I upvoted this for the idea behind...I think the question per se is not very answerable. Perhaps instead one could ask "In what way can US Government data assist research in [some international/non-US field of study] (or vice versa) ?". – Andy Shu Xin Apr 5 '13 at 19:14
	Agreed this should be a forum for international questions about Open Data. – Jonathan Stray Apr 6 '13 at 16:46

up vote 10 down vote

added by Alexis Dufrenoy Mar 15 '13 at 14:09

As almost every question here seem to be about the US, I think it's necessary to make sure other countries are not out of the scope. – Alexis Dufrenoy Mar 15 '13 at 14:10

It's pretty clear from the questions and comments that this is entirely U.S. centric. – Tom Morris Apr 6 '13 at 4:31

I don't think so. It's actually the opposite, since each question about the U.S. is clearly stated that way. It's never implicit. – Alexis Dufrenoy Apr 6 '13 at 9:32

I believe this form should be about open data questions internationally. It's a got topic in almost every country. – Jonathan Stray Apr 6 '13 at 16:47

up vote 10 down vote

added by Andy Shu Xin Mar 20 '13 at 9:28

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added by Mary Maher Mar 21 '13 at 20:50

A lot of these questions come up under discussions of 'data re-use' aka 'data repurposing' (although that suggests documenting well enough for it to be used for purposes other than why it was collected), peer-reviewing of data (discussed as 'data publication'), data citation (sufficient documentation to give attribution), data provenance (covers a really broad field), data curation (adding value to data, in part by documenting), etc. The problem is, it varies by the type of data; I've tried for solar data in FITS & event catalogs ( see bottom of docs.virtualsolar.org/wiki/Citation ) – Joe Mar 29 '13 at 14:37