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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