Open Data Activity

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Title	Understanding Open Data
Overview	The student will develop an understanding of what open data is, how it is collected and how it is used.
Prerequisite Knowledge	None
Learning Objectives	Upon completion, you will be able to: 1) Define "open data", 2) Understand the benefits of open data especially as it relates to humanitarian open source projects, 3) Contribute data to an existing open source project.

Society is in many ways driven by data. Data is collected We live in a data driven society. This activity is intended to

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Knowledge Area/Knowledge Unit	What ACM Computing Curricula 2013 https://www.acm.org/education/CS2013-final-report.pdf knowledge area and units does this activity cover?
Topic	What specific topics are addressed? The Computing Curriucula 2013 provides a list of topics - https://www.acm.org/education/CS2013-final-report.pdf
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Estimated Time to Completion	How long should it take for the student to complete the activity?
Materials/Environment	What does the student need? Internet access, IRC client, Git Hub account, LINUX machine, etc.?
Author(s)	Who wrote this activity? Darci Burdge
Source	Is there another activity on which this activity is based? If so, please provide a link to the original resource.
License	Under which license is this material made available? (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/)

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