Changing the World with

Visualization

Jérôme Cukier, OECD

Wednesday 14 October

We make data.

Out of 100 people…

Out of 100 people…

About 5 can make an educated

guess about key statistics of

their country.

DATA VISUALIZATION

NECESSARY FOR CHANGE

http://www.know-the-number.com

Time

Difference

Comparison

Time

Quantity

Value

Comparisons

Events

Use of data visualization

Potential

for action

HOW TO SHARE: DATA

VISUALIZATION AND TRUTH

1

10

100

1,000

10,000

100,000

1,000,000

10,000,000

Original map France map

Comparison of legends of both mapslogarithmic scale

SHARE KNOWLEDGE WITH

WHOM?

If you make the

data visualization that

does change the world,

If you make the

data visualization that

does change the world,

how do you make sure

that the world finds it?

Image credits

• Know the number billboard: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idiotking/3642170000/

• An Inconvenient Truth, Paramount pictures, 2006

• PowerMeter interface, Google, http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/google-powermeters-first-device-partner.html

• Atlas on the caesium deposition across Europe after the Chernobyl accident (JSP6)

http://rem.jrc.ec.europa.eu/atlas.html

• La France après Tchernobyl, Sortir du nucléaire, 2005.