Making the most of data: making data more open - Quocirca Insights

"With access to IBM's Bluemix and Node-RED technologies, KnowNow can focus on its own deep domain expertise - managing datasets to ensure that its customers get the end results they need. Indeed, KnowNow has a viewpoint that is quite refreshing - it wants to promulgate what it is doing to as many people and companies as possible: it does not want to be proprietary. It wants to be able to monetise its domain expertise in how it understands, analyses and feeds information back as the customer needs it - not from dealing with data in any 'hidden' manner. Part of this is undoubtedly based on KnowNow's relationship with the Open Data Institute (ODI). The ODI is pushing for as many datasets to be made available via open APIs as possible. KnowNow's approach has been to utilise as much 'free' data as possible - and therefore, it doesn't believe that it can charge for the data itself - only for the results. So, what has KnowNow been up to?"

This post discusses how to make data more open, the Open Data Institute and KnowNow.