Hi Cardiff!

• I’m Jasmine Dumas
  • Insurance Data Scientist and useR living in Connecticut, USA
  • M.S. Candidate in Predictive Analytics at DePaul University
  • Beginning Home brewer!
• Slides and Materials available at: jasdumas/talks/caRdiff-uk-open-gov-beer

What this presentation is about (and not about)

• I’m going to talk about the state of open government data in relation to beer
  • difficulties in finding and exploring analysis-ready data in a never ending sea of data
• This is not about “drunk politics”
  • not about regulations, hacking, or scandals regarding data

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The search for datasets

• Finding interesting and available datasets is a concern for all those involved in data analysis
• Where to look?
  • Google public data explorer
  • Github
  • kaggle data repository
  • Open Government Data Portals: UK, Connecticut, SF,
  • Machine Learning Repositories at Universities: UCI