Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan
Web 2.0 has brought about the "amateur" professionals (e.g., citizen journalists). In the data world, this has led to the rise of the amateur statistician. We've come to a new stage: Do It Yourself Data -- less than 5 minutes to set up a data collections, less than 5 minutes more to build on tables to create data visualizations.
How "free" is data? It's free but in a raw state that is not yet usable by most people.
Social data leads to ... less "going by what my gut says", workable data, reproducible results, expertise dissemination, leveling the playing field.
Some web sites of interest: DataPlace, EveryBlock, Timepedia and Chronoscope, Track-n-Graph, Graphwise, Freebase
Social data sites: Swivel, Many Eyes (from IBM AlphaWorks), Gapminder
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