Data Management and Information Design Session 1

Data management and informationdesign

Session I

Welcome everybody!Data management and information design

Javier de la Torre

Sergio Alvarez

Andrew Hill

“The goal is to transform data into information, and information into insight” Carly Fiorina

Data management and information design

Make a differenceData, information, insight...

Learn how to tell stories from dataData and analysis together can make a story

Learn the techniques and ideasBiodiversity is our background

Global Environmental Change is about a lot of things...

2010The International Year of Biodiversity

The year in which new species continue to be found, butmore tigers live in captivity than in the wild

The International Year on Biodiversity

The year in which 34 per cent of Asia-Pacific CEOs and 53per cent of Latin American CEOs expressed concern about the impacts of biodiversity loss on their business growth prospects, compared to just 18 per cent of Western European CEOs (PwC, 2010)

The year in which there are 1.8 billion people using the internet, but 1 billion people still without access to an adequate supply of freshwater

To Hack with data to save the planetWhat do we want from you?

2-3 million species

P.N.Ordesa 7-7-79

Dr. Scott Mori, an expert in the Brazil nut family and tropical forests

7th July 1979

3 de Enero de 19797 de Julio de 1979

foto de ordesa

Osmoderma eremita

P.N.Ordesa 7-7-79

Primary data

mapa de europa con el punto del bicho

Este es el mismo mapa con muchos mas puntos de donde se encuentra ese bicho en Europa

Este es el mismo mapa con muchos mas puntos de donde se encuentra ese bicho en EuropaArea de distribucion real de los puntos en europa

Systematic conservationKnowing where species are

We need dataLots of data

datos primarios al final

175 million records on the web

http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org

But when there is not enough data...Knowing where species are

Este es el mismo mapa con muchos mas puntos de donde se encuentra ese bicho en Europa

Plano de condiciones ambientalesSummer precipitation Winter precipitation

Maximum temp. summer Average height

Plano de distribución potencial de la especie

Plano de distribución potencial de la especie

Plano de distribución potencial de la especie

Distribution simulation of Carex bigelowii for different scenarios

Pearson et al., 2002

Crotalaria pallida (FABACEAE)

Rafael Luís Fonseca

Ocurrence data, specimen-observation data

Environmental layers

Distribution models

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BibliographyBooks we want you to read

Organization and structureWhat about the classes?

TheoryScience modulesLabsHomework

Organization and structure

Intro to data communicationData basicsData processingData visualization

Theory

Biodiversity and TaxonomyBiodiversity IndicatorsNiche modelingPhylogeneticsGap AnalysisProtected Areas analysisEnvironmental Impact Assessments

Science modules

HomeworkAll to be published on the blog

We are changing it...What about the Syllabus?

IntroVisual communicationData, Data and DataPecha KuchaData ProcessingJon Hutton visitData VisualziationFinal project

Course structure

We want you to tell a story out of data, place it in Internet and promote it.

We will help you with the data analysis and visualization but we want you to pick up the story.

Final project

Stay awake and be proactiveIt is a lot of content

Communication is keyInternet,Internet and Internet

http://mgec.tumblr.com/

jatorre@vizzuality.comsaleiva@vizzuality.comandrewxhill@gmail.com

We are here to help@jatorre@saleiva@andrewxhill

“They say Disneyland is the happiest place on Earth, but I think that a laughing gas factory would be pretty tough competition” - Greg Pettit

Let’s compete!

Most interesting blog postMost visited postBest project

promote your postsUse in whatever is in your hands to

Wiki demoClass tools

Questions?Probably I am missing things...

Creating your own online presenceSession I - LAB

TwitterTumblrGithub

Sign on...

Fill a user profile on the WikiSession I - Homework

https://github.com/andrewxhill/DMID/wiki/2011-Class-Profiles

Download refineSession I - Homework

http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/

Find a good conservation documentary

Session I - Homework

There is thousands on Internet, choose one and share it over Twitter and Facebook.