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Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation by [Joel Gurin]

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Get unprecedented access to thousands of databases. It's called Open Data, and it's revolutionizing business.

The business leader’s guide to using Open Data to analyze patterns and trends, manage risk, solve problems—and seize the competitive edge

Two major trends—the exponential growth of digital data and an emerging culture of disclosure and transparency—have converged to create a world where voluminous information about businesses, government, and the population is becoming visible, accessible, and usable. It’s called Open Data, and this book helps leaders harness its power to market and grow their companies.

Open Data Now gives you the knowledge and tools to take advantage of this phenomenon in its early stages—and beat the competition to leveraging its many benefits.

Joel Gurin is an expert on making complex data sets useful in solving consumer problems, analyzing corporate information, and addressing social issues. He has collaborated with leaders in data, technology, and policy in the U.S. and UK governments, including officials in the White House and 10 Downing Street and at more than 20 U.S. federal agencies.

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January 10, 2014
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From 2011 to 2012 Joel Gurin served as chair of the White House Task Force on Smart Disclosure, using Open Data to help consumers make informed choices on healthcare, financial services, education, and energy. An awardwinning science journalist, he is currently senior advisor at the GovLab at New York University. Gurin is the former editorial director and executive vice president of Consumer Reports and the former chief of the consumer bureau of the Federal Communications Commission.

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From 2011 to 2012 Joel Gurin served as chair of the White House Task Force on Smart Disclosure, using Open Data to help consumers make informed choices on healthcare, financial services, education, and energy. An awardwinning science journalist, he is currently senior advisor at the GovLab at New York University. Gurin is the former editorial director and executive vice president of Consumer Reports and the former chief of the consumer bureau of the Federal Communications Commission.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw Hill; 1st edition (January 10, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 10, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2209 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 353 pages

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I came to Open Data, the subject of my book and my current work, with a background in government, nonprofits, journalism, and consumer issues. I think of Open Data as accessible public data that people, companies, and organizations can use to launch new ventures, analyze patterns and trends, make data-driven decisions, and solve complex problems. Open Data can come from sources as diverse as federal agencies and Twitter, and can be used to build billion-dollar companies, accelerate scientific innovation, or help citizens shape city budgets, among many other uses.

I've explored this new territory in my book, Open Data Now, and cover it on my website, OpenDataNow.com. Open Data is a fast-moving phenomenon that has as much potential for social and business benefits as anything I've seen in my career. As senior advisor at the GovLab at NYU, I'm working with my colleagues to explore how Open Data, among other approaches, can make government more effective and improve people's lives.

My career began with an undergrad degree in biochemistry, which led to years of enjoyable work as a science and medical journalist, which led, in turn, to an offer to join Consumer Reports. I spent over a decade at Consumer Reports as editorial director and as executive VP. I became committed to the idea that usable, relevant data and information - whether it's about cars, health care, or economic trends - can help both consumers and businesses and improve society in the process.

After I left Consumer Reports I became chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission. Beginning with a deceptively simple question - how could we help consumers choose the best cell-phone plans? - my colleagues and I began a quest to figure out how data of all kinds can help people make important choices in finance, health, education, and other areas. I was invited to become chair of the White House Task Force on Smart Disclosure, the term we used for giving consumers useful data for decision-making; our report was published in mid-2013.

That work, in turn, led to the work I'm doing today and to my book, Open Data Now. I'm happy to be able to document the Open Data revolution and be part of it at the same time.

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Leighton Ku

A New Day for the Information Age

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 20, 2014

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As someone who has been a practicing data analyst, researcher and statistics faculty for more than 20 years, I have long understood the importance of making data accessible and analyzing it to improve public policy and public health.

Joel Gurin's book takes this to the next step, showing how accessible government data has already transformed the world and the everyday lives of millions of people through services like GPS devices, improved weather services, or mobile phone applications to tell you when the next bus will arrive. He also shows how firms like Amazon and Orbitz have added functions to help people sort out options and help make choices (based on price, quality ratings, time, etc.) Coupling data and new methods to sort through the data can help consumers save time and money.

Written in a lively style and full of examples from numerous companies and his own experience in the federal government, Joel Gurin shows both the opportunities and challenges that await us as we embark into a newer stage of the information age, where more data will be available, but we will also need more help in using that data. In these days of concerns about Edward Snowden and NSA, he also confronts some of the necessary issues regarding privacy and confidentiality of data.

Open Data Now is not a tech-y book that will tell you how to write better data mining programs, but is a book to help inform public and private decision-makers about how we can prepare for this new world.

Perhaps one of the paradoxes of the book is that Gurin, who has solid credentials as a consumer advocate, has largely written a book about business opportunities, as the subtitle of the book indicates. An implicit lesson of the book is that smart use of information can benefit businesses and consumers alike.

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Gail Shearer

A must read about innovations like GPS, Uber, and cell phones that are possible with availability of data

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 4, 2014

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It is easy to take for granted the transformative innovations, such as cell phones, GPS and Uber, that have dramatically changed our lives. Open Data Now, an excellent book, provides a framework to better understand how data gathered and made public by the government has made innovations like these possible.

It provides practical examples that bring to life economic theories: disclosure of unbiased information improves market performance; companies exploit consumer confusion; transparent price comparisons benefit consumers; and consumer complaints can be a powerful force to improve markets.

Open Data Now is a must-read for those interested in being part of the information revolution that will continue to improve how we make decisions and conduct our lives, whether it be to access information about health care treatment options, store our personal health records, communicate with people we know and people across the world, conduct personal finance transactions, and many other areas.

More change is coming … thanks to the efforts by Joel Gurin and others both in and out of the government to accelerate the availability of data and to develop creative new tools to access it.. Gurin’s book helps us understand what is going on before our eyes in a new open information era that encourages transparency and data mining for the benefit of humankind.

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Pallas Hupe Cotter, Author of Discovering Yourself in New Zealand

Fascinating look at what Open Data is, with real-world examples

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 12, 2016

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Before doing an interview with Joel Gurin this year, and wanting to fully understand the subject matter, I read from cover to cover his fascinating book about how Open Data has the potential to transform our lives as much (as one of his references said) the invention of the WorldWide Web. His definition of Open Data is "Data with a Mission", providing everything from "sentiment analysis" from social media data, to allowing fast innovation. For anyone who wants to understand what Open Data is and the potential of its transformative effect on our society, this is fascinating analysis packed with real world examples. I do understand that not all agree with his perspective (data "huggers" as he described them in our interview) but his perspective would make anyone ponder its potential.

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JPowell352

A key data resource regardless of perspective or role in the data movement

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 26, 2014

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This text by Gurin provides value across a fairly wide spectrum. For those hoping for a primer on the evolution of open data, this is probably going to be one of your best resources. For students and small business owners, multiple examples of people employing open data in a new venture will provide several models upon which their new ventures could be developed. Additionally, multiple resources were mentioned that will provide value to those conducting research (e.g., graduate students or those with an interest in government or government contractor data). I really liked the flexibility of the book in that a framework related to several aspects of the open data concept was presented, and the reader is left with a well-stocked "to do" list for further exploration in whatever direction they choose to take their open data journey.

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benedikt

interesting & easy read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 20, 2015

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Exciting & new, good read. Focussed 2 much on US & UK. Some technical explanations how this all works would help. Read it, worthwhile !

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 13, 2016

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Best book on Open Data. Ever.

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