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CEC Platform on Climate Change Needs Assessment Kickoff Meeting Presentation on Data-Driven Web Platforms March 22, 2012 CEC Platform on Climate Change Needs Assessment Kickoff Meeting 1

CEC Platform Kickoff Meeting: Opening Presentations

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CEC online climate change platform kickoff meeting presentations made Thursday, March 22. Presentations here include: * Presentation by Tom Adkins (11:30 - 12:15p ET) * Discussion: Core Goals and Purpose (facilitated by Tom Adkins) (1:15 - 2:00p ET)

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CEC Platform on Climate ChangeNeeds Assessment Kickoff Meeting

Presentation on Data-Driven Web PlatformsMarch 22, 2012

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Presentation Goals1. To provide an overview of the needs assessment project plan

2. To give you an overview of our methodology and the key questions we’ll be asking

3. To establish a common technical vocabulary: “web services,” “data visualization,” “social media”

4. To inspire your creativity with examples of some best practices from around the internet

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Project Plan: Phase 1Goal: To establish a shared, tri-national vision for the web platform

Action Item: Interviews with officials from the three national governments

Deliverable: First draft of needs assessment report, outlining a shared vision

Timeline: Interviews through mid-April, First Draft delivered April 27

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Project Plan: Phase 2Goal: To present platform design options that meet the requirements established in Phase 1

Action Items: Interviews with target audience members, stakeholders with relevant expertise; final meeting with CEC staff to review options

Deliverables: Second Draft of needs assessment report with multiple platform design options; final draft of needs assessment with selected platform design options

Timeline: Interviews through mid-May; Second Draft delivered May 25; Final Draft delivered June 29

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MethodologyThe key questions we’ll be asking

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Most Websites Fail

• They fail to define a core service to perform• They fail to define an audience to serve• They fail to anticipate the true costs of maintenance• They fail to differentiate themselves from existing websites and web services

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Core Purpose: Jobs to be Done

What is the core purpose of the web platform?What problems does the platform seek to solve?

What job are we hiring the platform to do?

• Stay practical, rather than abstract• Focus on actual, existing needs that aren’t being met elsewhere

Discussion @ 1:15pm

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Real Climatehttp://www.realclimate.org

Job to be done: provide a forum for sophisticated discussion for current issues in climate science

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AudienceWho does this web platform serve?

Discussion @ 1:15pm

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Climate-Lhttp://climate-l.iisd.org/

Job to be Done: aggregate information that is professionally useful to policy experts working on climate change in an international context

Audience: policy experts and government officials working on climate change, particularly those closely connected to UN organizations or international development banks

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Information Consumption and Datasets

What data and information will users consume using the web platform?

Are there specific datasets the platform should serve?In what format(s) should we serve the data?

Discussion @ 2:00pmDiscussion on GHG Project @ 3:15pm

Discussion on Carbon Sources Project @ 3:45pm

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Web Services1. Publishing Web Services (Data goes out)

2. Consuming Web Services (Data comes in)

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Web Services

Simple Website:HTTP between a browser and a single server.

Web Service Architecture:Data served in defined formats (XML, REST, SOAP, JSON, RSS) that can be consumed by any number of client-side applications. Results in improved information sharing, interoperability.

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Data VisualizationPublishing Data-Driven Web Services Enables

Tables - Charts - Graphs - Motion Graphics

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Mapping for Results visualizes the locations of World Bank Bank-financed projects to better monitor development impact, improve aid effectiveness and coordination, and enhance transparency and social accountability. In combination with the subnational socio-economic indicators such as poverty, health, malnutrition, and population density it helps to better target development assistance.

data.worldbank.orgmaps.worldbank.org

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Information And Communication

• Visualization should reveal hidden patterns and trends within the data

• A visualization should help make a discovery or tell a story

• The data should transform to a visual that is quickly understood

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Munterbund showcases the results of research graphical visualization of text similarities in essays in a book. “The challenge is to find forms of graphical and/or typographical representation of the essays that are both appealing and informative. We have attempted create a system which automatically generates graphics according to predefined rules.”

munterbund.de

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This animated visualization overlays data on government benefits onto a county-by-county choropleth map of the United States.

The arrows on the top right enable users to animate through decades, going back to 1969. On scrollover, the choropleth map reveals a time series graph for the corresponding region against the national average. The left-hand sidebar shows detailed breakdowns of the data by different government programs.

And most importantly, the guide to key trends provides a narrative for noteworthy regions and patterns.

nytimes.comThe Geography ofGovernment Benefitshttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/12/us/entitlement-map.html

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An intuitive look at new jobs added at the top 100 companies to work for, according to Fortune.

Number of new jobs added or lost is on the horizontal, and number of employees at the start of the year on the vertical. Bubble size represents number of job applicants.

http://nicolasrapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/best_companies_gfx.gif

nicholasrapp.com

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Consuming Web Services

• Creating a “Mashup” Effect

• Outsourcing Jobs to Be Done

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LinkedIn API

Job: tells you who you are connected to at a given organization

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Quora

Job: find credible answers to good questions via crowdsourcing

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Social Media• web-based

• participatory

• dialog is the media consumed

To succeed in social media, you must to incentivize and organize a community of users.

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