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1. Every picture tells a story Giovanni Alfredo Barbieri, Stefano De Francisci, Michele Ferrara, Antonio Pitrone ISTAT - Italian National Institute of Statistics Division of Users Needs, Integration and Territory Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge Cape Town 8 - 10 December 2010

2. 2 - Statistics eXplorer at Istat - Data to see, stories to tell - Data to see, stories to tell Outline tellsee

3. ... 2008 2002 Torino Oristano Foreign canceled Foreign resident population Foreign live births Live births Resident population Immigrated Net migration ... 2008 2002 HypercubeDW Olapfunction andextraction Usually resident population - Balance Foreign resident population - Balance Torino Oristano Statistical tablesStatistical tables on resident populationon resident population Statistical tablesStatistical tables on foreign populationon foreign population Data visualization Data, Data Warehouse, Data Visualization 3

4. I.Stat: the Istat Corporate Data Warehouse Hypercube Dataset Theme Sub-theme INDICATORS INDICATORS TERRITORY TERRITORY YEARS YEARS IN DICATORS TERRITORY TIME Statistical Table Thematic Structure The customization has involved the graphical layouts, the interfaces translation into the Italian language, the setting of the software according to the owned hardware The statistical contents are broken into themes and sub-themes and are based on multidimensional data structures (Hypercubes) The project I.Stat has been implemented through the customization of the OECD.Stat, the OECD Data Warehouse Release dates May 2010: beta version on the Istat Intranet July 2010: beta version on the Istat Web site December 2010: official launch http://dati.istat.it 4

5. Istat.eXplorer: GeoAnalytics Visualization Tool Storytelling Dynamic scatter plots Thematic maps Integrated graphs Statistics eXplorer developed by NComVA - is a web compliant application that enables users to explore simultaneously spatial, temporal and multivariate data from multiple perspectives, to discover interesting relationships, to share their incremental discoveries with colleagues and finally to communicate selected relevant knowledge to other users. In August 2010 Istat and NComVA concluded a Technical Services Agreement to Use Statistics eXplorer at Istat Ultimate goal is to develop Istat.eXplorer as the corporate GeoAnalytics Visualization environment. Now we are going to employ Statistics eXplorer for NoiItalia, a publication which provides data by regions, enabling users to exploit all the features of this application. 5

6. Hypercubes structure of I.Stat Indicators Territory Time One region One year One indicator All the regions One year All the indicators One region All the years All the indicators Some regions Some years Some indicators 6

7. Ce qui se passe c'est que vous avez une immense masse d'informations, pas seulement une masse, on peut dire un flux, un flot d'informations, et mme un dluge d'informations. J'ai un ami *Royan Scott qui dit: on vit le deuxime dluge; le premier dluge c'tait l'eau, le deuxime dluge c'est le dluge d'informations. Jessica Hagy Needles and haystacks and such. http://thisisindexed.com/2009/10/needles-and-haystacks-and-such/ (P. Lvy) Information deluge 7

8. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/schirrmacher09/schirrmacher09_index.html The term informavore characterizes an organism that consumes information. It is meant to be a description of human behavior in modern information society, in comparison to omnivore, as a description of humans consuming food. The informavore 8

9. 9 it is a component toolkit for dynamically exploring time-varying, geographically referenced and multivariate attributes simultaneously AND to enable the capture of the interactive visual process into information packages that allow the analysts to communicate their discovery and decision recommendations http://vita.itn.liu.se/gav?l=en GAV = GeoAnalytics Visualization Framework

10. Spatial visualization Storytelling Publishing Multidimensional engine Data 10 Statistics eXplorer

11. Statistics eXplorer: Vislet Vislet: embeddable interactive motion visual representations based on statistical data including choropleth map, scatter plot, parallel coordinates (profile plot), table lens and metadata for publishing in blog, wikis etc. HTML code that characterizes the story-to- be-told is automatically created by the eXplorer authoring tool http://ncva.itn.liu.se/explorer/vislets?l=en 11

12. Storytelling, or the weaving of a narrative Hans Rosling and Gapminder Istat and NoiItalia (traditional version) Oecd and Young people and the jobs crisis in numbers behind the actor stands the storyteller, but behind the storyteller stands a community of memory (H. Arendt) 12

13. To see the data, to tell a story Storytelling Dynamic Interaction Integration 14

14. NoiItalia 2011: Using eXplorer 15

15. 16 NoiItalia 2011: Using eXplorer

17. Dynamic graph Storytelling Metadata DownloadStatic text 18 NoiItalia 2011: Using eXplorer

20. DEFINITIONS SOURCES PUBLICATIONS 21 NoiItalia 2011: Using eXplorer

26. Integration scenario. A vision Regions Years Indicators Values INDICATORS TERRITORY TIME ETL / WS Graphs Storytelling Data Warehouse Hypercubes NoiItalia.eXplorer 27

27. Storytelling and ready-made visualization Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand Authoring tool Vislet Storytelling Ready-made Joseph Cornell, Cassiopea (assemblage) The history of an Emigran Data are not intrinsically boring. Neither are intrinsically interesting (S. Few) 28

28. Data, wisdom & Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. Our networks are awash in data. A little of it is information. A smidgen of this shows up as knowledge. Mix in experience, context, compassion, discipline, humor, tolerance, and humility, and perhaps knowledge becomes wisdom (Jonathan G. Koomey) 29

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