Making Sense of Open Data: From Raw Data to Actionable Insight
Chris B. Davis · 2012
1. Sustainable development of open data requires encouraging positive feedback loops between data, communities and platforms. 2. The tacit knowledge of domain experts is the duct tape of the Semantic Web. 3. To learn about data transparency problems, one only has to look at the website disclaimers of data transparency platforms. 4. Knowledge of the Dunning-Kruger effect is helpful for understanding political discourse. 5. Data quality is often worse than people realize. 6. The Internet is becoming our intelligence. 7. The full potential of computers cannot be grasped from within a Computer Science faculty. 8. In advocating free markets, the U.S. Republican Party demonstrates their embrace of evolution and rejection of intelligent design. 9. Sustainability researchers fail to apply the concept of resource efficiency to information. 10. A challenge of sustainability is that Pokémon is more exciting than power plants 11. This thesis will be read by more bots than humans. These propositions are considered opposable and defendable and as such have been approved by the supervisor, prof. dr. ir. M.P.C. Weijnen. Stellingen behorende bij het proefschrift