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Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. Now, there are many tools to visualize and share data content online. Smart organizations are creating publishing their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. They are using data visualization and mapping tools such as Swivel, Widgenie, Google Maps, Google Gadgets, and others to reveal connections to people's lives. In this session, we'll move beyond the technological alphabet soup of technologies that underlie these approaches. We'll consider: Who is having success with these approaches? How does it support their mission? How did they approach it? How did they convince management of its value? Organizations will show compelling examples of how they took complex data and made it widely available and understandable to online audiences of diverse backgrounds. Takeaways: 1. What options are available for sharing and visualizing policy-oriented data? 2. What are leading examples of this technique? 3. How do I get started? How do I persuade management that this is a valuable approach? Presented by Kurt Voelker, CTO of Forum One Communications, at NTEN NTC 2009. Contact: [email protected] / http://www.ForumOne.com .
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Gobs and Gobs of Data: Strategies for Sharing, Visualizing, and Mapping Policy Content April 27, 2009 1
Gobs and Gobs of DataStrategies for Sharing, Visualizing, and Mapping Data & Content
Presented by:
Kurt Voelker
John Kelly
Peter Black
Tanya Keen
Gobs and Gobs of Data: Strategies for Sharing, Visualizing, and Mapping Policy Content April 27, 2009 2
Today
Overview: 3 Simple Strategies for Online Data
The Climate Atlas Project: Storytelling with Data
Visualizing the Blogosphere for Intelligence
Mapping your Program Data: Google Earth, and
Salesforce.com
Gobs and Gobs of Data: Strategies for Sharing, Visualizing, and Mapping Policy Content April 27, 2009 3
Know Data
You Have Gobs and Gobs of Data.
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Overview: 3 Simple Strategies for Your Data Online
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1. Get it out of your reports.
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Link
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Online Tools to Quickly Share Data and Create Visualizations
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2. Connect it to the User.Provide context, make it actionable, keep it simple.
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Link
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3. Share it.Feeds and API’s set your data free
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The DC Office of the Chief Technical Officer cranks out more
than 261 live data feeds -- everything from crime incidents to
trash pick-up delays.
Compare that to New York City, which posts
city agency information within 10 days of their publication, as
PDFs.
Gobs and Gobs of Data: Strategies for Sharing, Visualizing, and Mapping Policy Content April 27, 2009 15”“It’s not just the API that’s a big deal. It’s the discipline an API imposes. To build one, an agency has to record and store data in a way that anticipates public use. Data sharing is no longer an afterthought.
You begin with the notion that you’re going to share information. And you’re going to make it easy for people.
Greg Elin, Sunlight Foundation
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The Climate Atlas Project: Storytelling with Data
Visualizing the Blogosphere for Intelligence
Mapping your Program Data: Google Earth, and
Salesforce.com
Gobs and Gobs of Data: Strategies for Sharing, Visualizing, and Mapping Policy Content April 27, 2009 17
Get to know us!
Kurt kvoelker
John [email protected]
Peter pepebutter
Tanya [email protected]
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