Open Web Data: The Open Data Landscape

​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

​Many possible pieces of technology require data about some aspect of the world in order to function. There are a number of powerful open dataset that can form the basis of a wide range of tools.

​We will survey a range of different large online data sources, examining what kinds of questions we might be able to answer, as well as getting to the practical stage of being able to extract usable data from these repositories

​The rest of the session will be devoted to thinking through a worked example of how we would go about using these data sources to answer the question “What are politically active organisations in the UK saying to their members?”