open data and visualisation
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Presentation on open data, IATI and visualisation for colleagues of centre for Development Innovation, WageningenURTRANSCRIPT
Open Data and Visualisation
Brownbag meeting Centre for Development Innovation
Mirjam Schaap, February 2013
OPEN DATA
Sites about open data / development
Open for Change http://openforchange.info/
Open Development (video) http://vimeo.com/49827002
Worldbank Open Data log http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/
G8 Open Data for Agriculture https://sites.google.com/site/g8opendataconference/
IFPRI open data for agriculture http://www.ifpri.org/event/open-data-agriculture-side-event-ifpri
Publish What You Fund http://www.publishwhatyoufund.org/
Open Aid Partnership http://www.openaidmap.org/
IATI
IATI Standard is a technical publishing framework allowing data to be compared. http://iatistandard.org/
UGANDA • http://openspending.org/ugandabudget
• http://www.publishwhatyoufund.org/uganda/uganda-with-data.htm#/%5E/2004/~/aid-and-domestic-spending-in-uganda-br----usd-
Data WORLDBANK
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.1524.LT.FE.ZS/countries?display=map
• http://www.openaidmap.org/mappingMalawi.html
SOURCES for Open Data
• http://openspending.org/ • http://datacatalog.worldbank.org/
VISUALIZING
Source: the Guardian
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-equALq5HJQ4/URbcddVnJlI/AAAAAAAAICE/zBwY0_qHcss/s1600/GraphImage.png http://technologyandsocialparticipation.blogspot.nl/
Elements in data visualisations
• When (temporal) : trends – patterns - correlations
• Where (geospatial): maps
• What (topical): worldclouds
• With whom: network visualisations
Get data • Open data • use APIs (twitter, YouTube etc.) • Scrape Merge + clean data: • google spreadsheets • Excel • Open refine (was google refine) Perform calculations on data (analyze) • R • google spreadsheets, • Excel Visual output • Charts : google spreadsheets – Tableau • Maps: google fusion tables • Networks: gephi, Node XL, Netlogo
Examples - tutorials
Social Network Analysis Using the Twitter API http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/social_network_analysis_for_journalists_using_the_twitter_api
Grabbing Twitter Search Results into Google Refine and Exporting Conversations into Gephi http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/grabbing_twitter_search_results_into_google_refine_and_exporting_into_Gephi
• https://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=food%20security • https://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23foodsecurity
• Google refine: https://code.google.com/p/google-refine/ • Google Fusion Tables + Spreadsheet: via google drive
Nice sites on visualisation Visualisation • https://drawingbynumbers.org/ • http://www.scimaps.org/ • http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog • http://datamarket.com/ • http://vizthinker.com/ • http://www.dataviz.org/ • http://visual.ly/ • http://www.creativebloq.com/design-
tools/data-visualisation-712402 • http://www.tableausoftware.com/
Tutorials Google Refine/Fusion Tables • http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resources
Geographic Visualisations • http://worldmapper.org • http://www.gapminder.org/data • http://spatialanalysis.co.uk/
Social Network Analysis • http://gephi.org/ • http://nodexl.codeplex.com/
Free courses • http://ivmooc.cns.iu.edu/ • http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/ • https://www.coursera.org/#course/sna
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