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Ex Pluribus Unum: From Fragmented Information to

Story-Telling at Istat

Emanuele BaldacciHead of Department for Integration, Quality, Research and Production Network Development

Beijing, China, 20-21 September 2012

Inclusive and Sustainable Development in East and

North-East Asia: Strengthening National Capacity to Produce

and Use Statistical Information

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In this presentation

A Common Framework for the Statistical Production Process: GSBPM

Toward a new organisational model at Istat

A technological solution for Data Visualisation: Statistics eXplorer

More about Statistics eXplorer

Statistics eXplorer at Istat

A conceptual framework

Recent applications

Future steps

E. Baldacci - Beijing, China, 20-21 September 2012

Ex Pluribus Unum: From Fragmented Information to Story-Telling at Istat

A Common Framework for the Statistical Production Process: GSBPM

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Toward a new organisational model at Istat


Spatial visualisation

Storytelling

Publishing

Multidimensional engine

Data


It is a component toolkit for dynamically exploring time‐varying, geographically referenced and multivariated attributes simultaneously

It enables the capture of the interactive visual process into information packages that allow the analysts to communicate their discovery and decision recommendations

A technological solution for Data Visualisation:Statistics eXplorer


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More about Statistics eXplorer

Developed by NComVA, it is a web compliant application which enables users: to explore simultaneously

spatial, temporal and varied data

to discover interesting relationships

to share incremental discoveries with other people

to communicate selected relevant knowledge to other users



More about Statistics eXplorer: some graphical components

Scatterplot

Time series

Choropleth maps Bar charts and Hystograms

Parallel coordinates … data



More about Statistics eXplorer: Vislet and Storytelling

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 characterises the story‐to‐be‐told, is automatically created by the eXplorerauthoring toolhttp://ncva.itn.liu.se/explorer/vislets?l=en



Statistics eXplorer at Istat

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INDICATOR

S

TERRITORY

TIME

Interactive Graphs

Storytelling

Data Warehouse

3‐dimensional cubes

Flagsh

ips Web Sites

Labora

tory

In August 2010 Istat and NComVA came to a Technical Service Agreement to use Statistics eXplorer at Istat.

In January 2011 Istat carried out the first online product based on Statistics eXplorer: Noi Italia. 100 statistics to understand the country we live in, a publication which provides data by regions, enabling users to exploit the main features of the application.

Ultimate goal is to develop Istat.eXplorer as the corporate GeoAnalytics Visualisation environment.



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A conceptual framework: complexity management (I)

Complexity of data interconnection

Complexity of user interaction

Vislet Authoring tool

Dynamic access to DW

Stored flat file



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Complexity of data

intercon

nection

Complexity of user interaction


Dynamic access to DW

Comple

xity

Stored flat file

A conceptual framework: complexity management (II)



Comple

xity

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Intercon

nection

Interaction Low High

Low

High

Authoring tool with direct access to DW

Vislet with direct access to DW

Vislet on flat file

Authoring tool on flat file

A conceptual framework: complexity management (III)



Interaction

Comple

xity

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High

low

High

A conceptual framework: technical solutions

Interactive environment based on a Web Server rewrite technique for dynamic data loading from I.Stat

Technical solutions adopted at Istat

Interactive environment based on flat file

Visualisation environment for e‐publishing based on flat file

Intercon

nection

Low



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Dynamic queries

Typical use‐ eXplorer as a part of the corporate DW

Features‐ Direct connection to the DW‐ Partial use of storytelling

Stored Flat File

Typical use‐ To embed graphs (widget , etc.) into Web Sites‐ Digital publications‐ Social sharing

Typical use‐ eXplorer as tool to provide the users with interactive, ready madeor open, products

Features‐ Offline extraction from the DW and integration with other sources‐ Strong use of storytelling

Features‐ Offline extraction from DW and integration with other sources‐ Strong use of storytelling


Front‐end component

Dat

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adin

gRecent applications:

Uses and features of eXplorer (strategical view)



Recent applications: solutions and experiences

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Dynamic queries

CORPORATE SOLUTION

•Istat.eXplorer

Stored flat file

FLAGSHIPS & WEB SITES

•Noi Italia 2012•Development policy indicators•Census at a glance

ONLINE LABORATORIES

•EniLab•OpenLab•eXplorer for the General Censuses


Front‐end component

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eXplorer for the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy

•History of Italy through interactive graphs



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Recent applications: Flagships & Web site - Noi Italia. 100 statistics to understand the country we live in

To give users an overview of Italian and European socio‐economic indicators to understand the most important positive and negative aspects of the country in which they live

To compare the national position with that of other European countries

To highlight regional differences in the Italian national context

The

idea

http://noi‐italia.istat.it



Recent applications: Noi Italia. 100 statistics to understand the country we live in

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IndicatorsGeneral themes

Domain subthemes

(WEB SITE) (VISLET)



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Recent applications: Istat.eXplorer in Noi Italia



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Recent applications: eXplorer for Italy’s 150th Anniversary

In March 2011, at the Exhibition for the 150th

Anniversary of the Unification of Italy Istat presented

The History of Italy through interactive graphs

a multimedia room with video and six interactive kiosks where eXplorer played the main role



regioni a confrontoquanti eravamo, quanti saremo

le principali trasformazioni del Paese

i cambiamenti nel tempo

uno sguardo d’insieme

Istruzione Lavoro

Economia

PopolazionePopolazione

Recent applications: interactive room with theHistory of Italy through interactive graphs (I)

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quanti eravamo, quanti saremo

le principali trasformazioni del Paese regioni a confronto

i cambiamenti nel tempo

uno sguardo d’insieme

lavoro

Popolazione

Economia

Istruzione Istruzione

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Recent applications: interactive room with theHistory of Italy through interactive graphs (II)



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Recent applications: On line laboratories -OpenLab (I)

Web laboratory for developing statistical

talent



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Add

Select

Delete

Create Vislet

Storytelling management area

Recent applications: On line laboratories -OpenLab (II)



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Future steps: a Corporate Model



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Future steps: a Corporate Dissemination Model



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