A repo for hacking together the 'Facts don't care about your feelings' dashboard discussed at Open Data Camp 10 in Edinburgh.
We had some discussions in Saturday's sessions about misinformation, and about how we as data people could (or should) tackle it. On Saturday evening I got thinking about something we could build, and pitched the session for Sunday. My idea is something like the Birmingham open data dashboard - not the boring official one, the funny one which I now can't find anywhere. If anyone still has a link or even a picture, please let me know!
We could reuse the code from the Open Inovations dashboard, so what we want to do is fill it with facts to counter disinformation.
There's a Google sheet here where we started collecting ideas in-session. What we want is ideas and submissions for news items, claims etc that you think can be countered with open data. For each one we need to know:
- What's the claim? e.g. 'Immigrants are eating swans'
- Who said it?
- What's the true number, or what's the rebuttal?
- What's the source for the rebuttal?
- Is there data about this that we can use, and can you supply the link or tell us where we can find it?
Other than contributing to the Google sheet, if you want to help us work on this please drop me a message here on Github, on LinkedIn, or email me at lucy@jargonautical.com.