tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018371774869383950.post784298089360035531..comments2023-09-20T16:55:09.433+01:00Comments on A Shiny World: Mind the (data) gap!louloukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11562093751876067547noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018371774869383950.post-72430966226611315782011-01-25T08:36:22.336+00:002011-01-25T08:36:22.336+00:00Lou, you have not misrepresented me...from a data ...Lou, you have not misrepresented me...from a data professionals perspective i am a complete novice. At best i'd describe myself as an 'interested amateur'. But....and this is the point i was trying to make on twitter, compared to my colleagues at Urban Forum, my peers who run other national charities and our members who run community groups across England... i am a bit of a data geek.<br /><br />that doesnt mean i know much though....as they say 'in the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king'. well i guess i am a one-eyed-opendata-vcs-king ;~)<br /><br />i agree wholeheartedly with your post about the need to bridge the divide between professional data crunchers and citizens completely unaware of the potential value of open data.<br /><br />I guess, the only possible slight variation in our perspectives, is that i'd probably regard you and me at different ends of 'the middle'...where i'm moving up from completely unaware and you regarding yourself as being less knowledgeable than other professionals working with data. (i cant say if your perception is true or not cos i'm not sufficently knowledgeable to tell!)<br /><br />great post...will try to blog something myself piggybacking off your post.Toby Blumehttp://tobyblume.posterous.com/noreply@blogger.com