Cloud Computing and Open Data
Cloud computing means using software and storing data "in the cloud" (i.e., somewhere on the Internet). Open data is data that someone makes available on the Internet for all to use. What do these two things have in common? They both have to do with doing more of our work out there — on the Internet — instead of on our own computers
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Cloud Computing |
Open Data
Cloud Computing
- Google Docs - Software for creating documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and forms and making them available to others
- Zoho - Create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, wikis, business management documents; store them and share them. Free for personal users; businesses may be charged
- GoToMeeting
- Join.me
- Microsoft Teams
- WebEx
- Zoom
- Basecamp
- iMeet Central
- Slack
- Trello
- Twiddla - Team whiteboarding, web surfing
- Box.net - Store, share, sync files
- Docstoc - Share business and professional documents
- Dropbox - Store data you want to keep private or share with others
- Google Drive
- Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive)
- PBWorks - Formerly PBWiki
- Scribd - Share written content
- SlideShare - Share presentations and related documents and videos
- Spaaze - Make an "infinite virtual corkboard" of bookmarks, notes, lists, etc.
- Evernote - Capture notes, photos, web pages, etc.
- Google Keep - For notes
- Index
- Microsoft OneNote
Software in the Cloud:
Also known as "software as a service" (SaaS)
Collaborating in the Cloud:
Hold virtual meetings. (You could also use cloud software, above, to work on documents together. Or wikis.)
Virtual Meetings
Project Management (staying organized, sharing documents, etc.)
Data Storage / Data Sharing in the Cloud:
See also
Sometimes this means keeping your data private in the cloud, sometimes sharing it with others. In either case, it's available from wherever you have an Internet connection
Online Notes:
Open Data
See also
- Data.gov - U.S. federal government data
- California: Data.CA.gov
- New York City: NYC Open Data
- New York State: Open New York
- San Francisco: DataSF
- Australia: Open Data Catalogue
- Canada: Open Data
- Europe: European Open Data Portal
- United Kingdom: Data.gov.uk
- Eurostat
- Gapminder - International indicators; data can be downloaded and visualized in various ways
- OECD Statistics
- UN Data (UNdata)
- World Bank Data
- Enigma Public - "The world's broadest collection of public data"
- The Data Hub [ckan.net]
- Data Store: World Government Data (Guardian [U.K.])
- DataCite Repositories - Many scientific data sets
- Google Public Data Explorer - Data sets and tools to use them
- Open Government Data