{"id":57,"date":"2011-06-15T20:54:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:54:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T20:54:01","slug":"fingers-crossed-for-the-open-data-challenge-results-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/fingers-crossed-for-the-open-data-challenge-results-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Fingers crossed for the Open Data Challenge results tomorrow . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Along with 429 other competitors across Europe, we entered our application – this website www.ukcrimestats.com<\/a> – to the Open Data Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I’ve no idea who the other competitors are or what they’ve done and I look forward to finding out – that’s bound to give me some new ideas. It’s great the challenge has had such a good response. Of course a great many competitors are going to be disappointed but it will still be a net gain.<\/p>\n

Incentives, even remote ones, alway motivate people to do more and in the process they will acquire new skills and networks that they can take with them into the future.<\/p>\n

It’s a bit of a clich\u00e9 I know, but there really is no such thing as failure, only feedback.<\/p>\n

Competitions that encourage people to innovate, especially with data, has to be the way ahead for public policy.<\/p>\n

Let there be many more Open Data Challenges.<\/p>\n

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Along with 429 other competitors across Europe, we entered our application – this website www.ukcrimestats.com – to the Open Data Challenge. I’ve no idea who the other competitors are or what they’ve done and I look forward to finding out … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-data-challenge"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t