Well, it's been quite a while that I've not written some stuff or shared something. Recently, I went to "Open Nepal Hackathon 2013" where developers and designers sit for some hours to create a useful product at the end of the day. The basic idea of the program was to use open-data to build something useful.
Open-data is the data that is free(open) to everyone so that they can use it, know about it and let others know about it. It is kind of a open-source concept. Open-data is available in open formats such as CSV, JSON or XML. If the required data is available through a website or a PDF or a DOC then it can be scraped to make it open format so that anyone can use it. Open-data is basically required by data journalists, developers to manipulate and make use of it to make different visualizations, services or even applications. Example of some open data could be census, GDP, etc.
