Slides from Open Institute's workshop on visualising data to the TISA team

1. Workshop:
Visualising
Data
29 May 2014 http://openinstitute.com/
@Open_Institute
hello@openinstitute.com

2. 09.00 - 10.00 Welcome + Introduction
About Open Institute
Expectations, outcomes
Open Data
Examples and case studies
Demo: Open County, Open Duka, KCPE Trends
Blitz: Acquiring, Analysing and Filtering Data
10.00 - 11.00 Visualising data
Theories and concepts, tools
11.00 - 11.30 Tea break
AGENDA

3. 11.30 - 13.00 Visualising Data (Represent + Refine)
Exercise: Key dates in county budget process
Timeline.JS
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Visualising Data - cont’d
Exercise: County Development Expenditure
15.30 - 16.30 Publishing Data
16.30 - 17.00 Closing Remarks
AGENDA - CONT’D

4. The Mysteries of the Ancients | practicalowl / flickr
ABOUT US

5. OPEN INSTITUTE
come my tiny metal children | drspam / flickr

6. OUR MISSION
We work every day to build an
open society managed by
informed fact driven citizens

7. Open
government
interventions
for better
outcomes
Ethiopian Tribes, Suri | deepblue66 / flickr
OUR THEMATIC FOCUS

8. Child support groups | dfid / flickr
OUR THEMATIC FOCUS
Strengthening
local
implementation
of international
initiatives

9. Multi-
stakeholder
engagement in
governance
@muchiri
OUR THEMATIC FOCUS

10. KNOWLEDGE | TOOLS | COMMUNITY | POLICY
1 - 5 iterations | Windell Oskay / flickr
HOW WE ARE ORGANISED

11. OUR TEAM

12. TODAY’S WORKSHOP
EXPECTATIONS & OUTCOMES
Kaaiman's River Bridge, Wilderness, South Africa | dvdmerwe / flickr

13. OPEN DATA
Open data is data that can be freely used,
reused and redistributed by anyone -
subject only, at most, to the requirement to
attribute and sharealike.
- Open Definition
Open Data Stickers | jwyg / flickr

14. OPEN DATA PORTALS
http://data.worldbank.org/

15. OPEN DATA PORTALS
http://data.gov/

16. OPEN DATA PORTALS
http://data.gov/

17. OPEN DATA PORTALS
http://opendata.go.ke/

18. OPEN DATA PORTALS
http://opendata.go.ke/

19. http://donteat.at
APPLICATIONS
http://donteat.at

20. APPLICATIONS
Where Does My Money Go

21. APPLICATIONS
Where Does My Money Go

22. planning the technology curriculum | billvanloo / flickr
OUR TOOLS

23. Chalkboard | aaronknox / flickr
KCPE TRENDS
http://apps.openinstitute.com/kcpetrends

24. KCPE TRENDS
http://apps.openinstitute.com/kcpetrends

25. Rice for dinner| villify / flickr
OPEN COUNTY
http://opencounty.org/demo

26. OPEN DUKA
http://opencounty.org/demo

27. OPEN DUKA
http://openduka.org/
Post-it® notes | riNux / flickr

28. OPEN DUKA
http://openduka.org/

29. WHAT TO DO WITH DATA
Acquiring,
Analysing and
Filtering
DSC_0084 | torres21 / flickr

30. VISUALISATION METHODS
Periodic Table of Visualisation Methods

31. CATEGORIES OF DATA
Process vs
Structured
Data
Get Creative! | JD Hancock / flickr

32. I <3 you too (Explored) | lng0004 / flickr
TEA BREAK

33. Co-authorship network map of physicians publishing on hepatitis C | speedoflife / flickr
VISUALISING DATA

34. “An infographic is made manually (e.g. via
Illustrator), whereas a visualization is
automatically generated from data.
… A visualization can just be regenerated,
whereas an infographic has to be remade
manually.”
- r/dataisbeautiful
INFOGRAPHIC VS
VISUALISATION
the difference engine | zachstern / flickr

35. 11.30 - 13.00 Visualising Data (Represent + Refine)
Exercise: Key dates in county budget process
Timeline.JS
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Visualising Data - cont’d
Exercise: County Development Expenditure
15.30 - 16.30 Publishing Data
16.30 - 17.00 Closing Remarks
AGENDA - RECAP

36. VISUALISING DATA
Represent and
Refine
The Story of South African Wines | dimitratzanos / flickr

37. TIMELINE.JS

38. Lunch time | swamibu / flickr
LUNCH

39. VISUALISING DATA
Represent and
Refine
Race and ethnicity 2010: Los Angeles | walkingsf / flickr

40. SHARING IS CARING
Publishing
Data
* Heiroglyphics * | pareeerica / flickr

41. http://openinstitute.com
@Open_Institute
Boy in Cové, Benin | deepblue66 / flickr

42. Open Definition - http://opendefinition.org/
Open Data Handbook - http://opendatahandbook.org/
World Bank Data - http://data.worldbank.org/
Data.GOV - http://data.gov/
Kenya Open Data - http://opendata.go.ke/
Where Does My Money Go (UK) - http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/
Don’t Eat At ____ - http://donteat.at/
KCPE Trends - http://apps.openinstitute.com/kcpetrends
Open County - http://opencounty.org/demo
Open Duka - http://openduka.org/
LINKS

43. They Rule - http://www.theyrule.net/
Infographic vs Visualisation - http://www.reddit.
com/r/dataisbeautiful/wiki/index#wiki_infographic_vs_visualization/
Airbus A380 Extraordinary Facts Infographic - http://www.
infographicsshowcase.com/airbus-a380-extraordinary-facts-
infographic/
Out of Sight, Out of Mind - http://drones.pitchinteractive.com/
Print-only interactive visualization by The Economist - http://imgur.
com/r0B8GFb/
Periodic Table of Visualisation Methods - http://www.visual-literacy.
org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
LINKS

44. Timeline.JS - http://timeline.knightlab.com/
Easel.ly - http://easel.ly/
Visual.ly - http://visual.ly/
Canva - http://canva.com/
Visage - http://visage.co/
Google Charts - http://developer.google.com/
20 Free Data Visualisation Tools - http://www.creativebloq.
com/infographic/20-free-data-visualisation-tools-5133780
Open Spending - http://openspending.org/
LINKS