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Best-practice questions generally involve a short guide or tutorial related to an outstanding example of the use or implementation of Open Data principles or practices.

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Is it okay to download all datasets from a government open data portal?

The Philippine Government has published (Jan. 2014) on the government website (gov.ph) the 2014-2106 action plan for open data. In Section 8, Appendix F (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Philippines) …
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A Python guide for open data file formats

Once you've decided on a data format, you will need to decide the following additional issues before publishing your open dataset: Data Layout Name/Data type (Vocabulary) of data fields. Language an …
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Involvement of central statistics bureau with national open data portal

I have a CSV dataset you should find useful. It contains primary government website URLs for all countries in the world. The third field is to the country's statistical division. http://www.opengeoco …
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Metadata standards and best practices for data dictionaries for CSV files/data

I have recently started using the Linked CSV proposed standard for generating CSV files from plural data sources. Below is a vocabulary definition for the columns/data types I am using. Perhaps others …
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What would be the cleanest / easiest method of collecting rental property data?

HUD offers a lot of rent related information (by County). For example, the 50th percentile estimates contain the medium rent per studio, 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms per county. http://www.huduser.org/portal/ …
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