Tagged: datamarket
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“Brutal transparency” on the DataMarket blog
I just posted a new entry on the DataMarket blog: Iceland: Restoring trust through open data and “brutal transparency”
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Iceland & Energy – presentation w. John Perkins
Just finished my previously mentioned presentation on Icelandic energy data. Some 250-300 people showed up – mostly to listen to John Perkins obviously. Interesting audience to say the least, but a lot of fun! My DataMarket piece went well – and putting it together at least helped me put some thi...
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Iceland & Energy: Upcoming presentation
I have been invited – on behalf of DataMarket – to give a presentation at the University of Iceland on April 6th. The occasion is a small conference due to the visit of “Economic Hit Man” John Perkins to Iceland. Perkins is here to attend the premiere of “Dreamland“, a documentary on the effects ...
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Icesave and Icelandic deposits
As DataMarket‘s Money:Tech gig (see previous entry) approaches, we’re starting to see all sorts of interesting data coming together to form our “DataMarket on the Icelandic Economy”. Some graphs just speak for themselves. Here’s one that caught my eye today: The numbers are millions ISK. Note tha...
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DataMarket at Money:Tech 2009
My company – DataMarket – will be doing a presentation at O’Reilly’s Money:Tech conference in New York in February. I attended the first Money:Tech conference earlier this year, and I must say it’s one of my favorite conferences ever, so I’m greatly honored to be speaking there. The topic of my p...
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DataMarket launched
I’m pleased to announce the launch of DataMarket’s new website. As the name implies, DataMarket is about creating a marketplace for data – structured data to be more specific. This means all sorts of statistics and tabular data, including but not limited to: market research, exchange rates, vario...
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Enter the cloud – but how deep?
The new company is officially founded and has got a name: DataMarket. You’ll have to stay tuned to hear about what we actually do, but the name provides a hint 😉 In the last couple of weeks I’ve spent quite some time, thinking about the big picture in terms of DataMarket’s technical setup, and it...