Hundreds of Hackers Celebrate Open Data Day (thenewstack.io)

An anonymous reader writes: Hundreds of different data-hacking events are being held around the globe this weekend to celebrate International Open Data Day. It's the fifth installment of an annual event promoting government data-sharing with a series of loosely joined hackathons, "to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments," according to the event's web site. "Data science is a team sport," says Megan Smith, the former Google executive turned U.S. CTO, who points out over 200,000 new federal data sets have been opened to the public since 2009 on Data.gov. Each hackathon will culminate with a demo or brainstorm proposal that can be shared with the other participating groups around the world.

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Re:When will Slashdot open the moderation data?

[wonkey_monkey]

I am curious to know when Slashdot will provide more transparency and openness regarding the data pertaining to the comment moderation here at Slashdot.

The observable universe is some 90-odd billion light years across and 13.7 billion years old, human history spans thousands of years, myriad cultures co-exist across the face of this planet along with the wide diversity of plant and animal life, and that's what you're curious about?

so we can build moderation abuse detection systems.

Abuse such as what? Are gangs of Russian criminals selling mod points on the black market?