BrandPost: The Democratization of Public Data and Analytics Tools

In recent years, we’ve seen a quiet but steady movement to open up more datasets for use by researchers, local governments, product development teams, and just about anyone else. Today, this “open data” movement makes an enormous amount of data freely available.
So what exactly is open data? The industry group Open Knowledge International offers this definition in its Open Data Handbook: “Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone&mdas