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Why is open data important? Well, for starters, data has limited value. It’s what we do with data that generates value. When we open the stuff that has limited value, we open a door to numerous creative innovations. If we lock the data down, those opportunities for creativity don’t materialize. Tony Hirst has been playing around with an interesting approach to repurposing data in ways that most people wouldn’t imagine. Have a look at data scraping wikipedia with Google spreadsheets. It’s a bit technical at stages. But it’s a great example of creativity driven by openness.