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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
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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