Salmon and Clear-Cutting: The Devastating Costs of Bad Data in California
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"In the open data and open government communities, we like to talk up the benefits of open innovation and private sector application development when governments open up data in structured formats. The cost of not doing so is huge, too. When data cannot be easily analyzed, lost dollars in public policy mistakes can easily reach tens of million at a time...."