How can startups find data and use it to help their business?
Presentation for the Digital Incubation Center, Qatar Ministry of Transportation and Communications
Heather Leson
March 9, 2016
http://www.ictqatar.qa/en/dic
http://qcri.org.qa/
Intelligent transport systems from a freight company perspectivePer Olof Arnäs
A lecture on ITS from a road freight transporter perspective. It talks about general demands and trends, about digitization in the transport industry in general and with the challenged in real-time data exploitation. Also, Big data is presented from a freight transport perspective.
Data Science Innovations is a guest lecture for the Advanced Data Analytics (an Introduction) course at the Advanced Analytics Institute at University of Technology Sydney
New Discovery Tools for Digital Humanities and Spatial Data (Summary of the J...Micah Altman
My colleague, (Merrick) Lex Berman, who is Web Service Manager & GIS Specialist, at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard presented this as part of the Program on Information Science Brown Bag Series. Lex is an expert in applications related to digital humanities, GIS, and chinese history -- and has developed many interesting tools in this area.
In his talk, Lex notes how the library catalog has evolved from the description of items in physical collections into a wide-reaching net of services and tools for managing both physical collections and networked resources: The line between descriptive metadata and actual content is becoming blurred. Librarians and catalogers are now in the position of being not only docents of collections, but innovators in digital research, and this opens up a number of opportunities for retooling library discovery tools. His presentation will presented survey of methods and projects that have extended traditional catalogs of libraries and museums into online collections of digital objects in the field of humanities -- focusing on projects that use historical place names and geographic identifiers for linked open data will be discussed.
Providing geospatial information as Linked Open DataPat Kenny
ADAPT is revolutionising the way people can seamlessly interact with digital content, systems and each other and enabling users to achieve unprecedented levels of access and efficiency. - Prof. Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin. Address given at Ordnance Survey Ireland GI R&D Initiatives, Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 13:00 to 20:30 (GMT), Maynooth University.
Big Data Analytics and Open Data : The presentation aim is to enhance the awareness about big data analytics by process and importance of open data. Two case studies overview with accuracy and introduction is presented by Sharjeel Imtiaz.
PhD from University of East London
Intelligent transport systems from a freight company perspectivePer Olof Arnäs
A lecture on ITS from a road freight transporter perspective. It talks about general demands and trends, about digitization in the transport industry in general and with the challenged in real-time data exploitation. Also, Big data is presented from a freight transport perspective.
Data Science Innovations is a guest lecture for the Advanced Data Analytics (an Introduction) course at the Advanced Analytics Institute at University of Technology Sydney
New Discovery Tools for Digital Humanities and Spatial Data (Summary of the J...Micah Altman
My colleague, (Merrick) Lex Berman, who is Web Service Manager & GIS Specialist, at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard presented this as part of the Program on Information Science Brown Bag Series. Lex is an expert in applications related to digital humanities, GIS, and chinese history -- and has developed many interesting tools in this area.
In his talk, Lex notes how the library catalog has evolved from the description of items in physical collections into a wide-reaching net of services and tools for managing both physical collections and networked resources: The line between descriptive metadata and actual content is becoming blurred. Librarians and catalogers are now in the position of being not only docents of collections, but innovators in digital research, and this opens up a number of opportunities for retooling library discovery tools. His presentation will presented survey of methods and projects that have extended traditional catalogs of libraries and museums into online collections of digital objects in the field of humanities -- focusing on projects that use historical place names and geographic identifiers for linked open data will be discussed.
Providing geospatial information as Linked Open DataPat Kenny
ADAPT is revolutionising the way people can seamlessly interact with digital content, systems and each other and enabling users to achieve unprecedented levels of access and efficiency. - Prof. Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin. Address given at Ordnance Survey Ireland GI R&D Initiatives, Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 13:00 to 20:30 (GMT), Maynooth University.
Big Data Analytics and Open Data : The presentation aim is to enhance the awareness about big data analytics by process and importance of open data. Two case studies overview with accuracy and introduction is presented by Sharjeel Imtiaz.
PhD from University of East London
A Linked Data Dataset for Madrid Transport Authority's DatasetsOscar Corcho
Presentation done at the CIT2014 conference in Santander, describing the initial work towards providing a Linked Data dataset for Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid
Data Science Innovations : Democratisation of Data and Data Science suresh sood
Data Science Innovations : Democratisation of Data and Data Science covers the opportunity of citizen data science lying at the convergence of natural language generation and discoveries in data made by the professions, not data scientists.
Big data and the dark arts - Jisc Digital Media 2015Jisc
There still remains a certain misunderstanding by the very definition of "big data" and the perceived hype around the term. This workshop clarified the concepts and give examples of relevant big data projects.
Hawke's Bay Open Data Conference - 2 May 2019enotsluap
Hawke's Bay Open Data Conference - 2 May 2019. Presentation on open data Policy, data available and innovative ways it is being reused. Also why the private sector could/should release data.
CeRDI Research RUN Vietnam Agriculture GroupHelen Thompson
Federation University's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) is participating in the Regional University Network (RUN) Vietnam Agriculture Group. This presentation provides some background on CeRDI initiatives in eResearch.
Areas of focus include capacity building and engagement, research collaborations around soil management, water resources, land use, crop productivity, climate change and adaption, biodiversity, participatory GIS and citizen science.
Major technology and research trends link to ubiquitous high-speed broadband, the petabyte age, open data policies and the opportunities for Universities and particularly regional universities to play a significant role in generating insight from data.
Mobile technologies… App development and responsive design – for student and staff recruitment, engagement, knowledge transfer
3d and visualisation technologies… Massive innovation and research opportunities
The Centre for Humanitarian Data and the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) are convening a Data Literacy Consortium. The Data Playbook Beta project is a prototype of social learning designed on modularized pick-and-choose model for 30 minute to 1 hour conversations or lunch and learns. Playbooks are designed to be guided by the users and leaders to decide what ‘activity’ or ‘action’ best suits the given need.
This presentation was part of the Humanitarian Network Partnership Week (HNPW) https://vosocc.unocha.org/GetFile.aspx?xml=rss/5553avUoDK9oBXk5WjCq32t1ttUfc38nDpek4dR1ieeonUgx_27042_l1.html&tid=5553&laid=1&sm=
February 4, 2019 Geneva Switzerland
Co-hosted by Heather Leson (IFRC) and Javier Teran (Centre for Humanitarian Data)
Session goals: 1. Discuss the Data Playbook (beta) project and invite participants to co-create the Data Playbook version 1.
2. Convene a Data Literacy Consortium to support humanitarian data literacy.
Content:
https://www.preparecenter.org/toolkit/data-playbook
Organizations:
https://centre.humdata.org/
http://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/theme/data/
A Linked Data Dataset for Madrid Transport Authority's DatasetsOscar Corcho
Presentation done at the CIT2014 conference in Santander, describing the initial work towards providing a Linked Data dataset for Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid
Data Science Innovations : Democratisation of Data and Data Science suresh sood
Data Science Innovations : Democratisation of Data and Data Science covers the opportunity of citizen data science lying at the convergence of natural language generation and discoveries in data made by the professions, not data scientists.
Big data and the dark arts - Jisc Digital Media 2015Jisc
There still remains a certain misunderstanding by the very definition of "big data" and the perceived hype around the term. This workshop clarified the concepts and give examples of relevant big data projects.
Hawke's Bay Open Data Conference - 2 May 2019enotsluap
Hawke's Bay Open Data Conference - 2 May 2019. Presentation on open data Policy, data available and innovative ways it is being reused. Also why the private sector could/should release data.
CeRDI Research RUN Vietnam Agriculture GroupHelen Thompson
Federation University's Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) is participating in the Regional University Network (RUN) Vietnam Agriculture Group. This presentation provides some background on CeRDI initiatives in eResearch.
Areas of focus include capacity building and engagement, research collaborations around soil management, water resources, land use, crop productivity, climate change and adaption, biodiversity, participatory GIS and citizen science.
Major technology and research trends link to ubiquitous high-speed broadband, the petabyte age, open data policies and the opportunities for Universities and particularly regional universities to play a significant role in generating insight from data.
Mobile technologies… App development and responsive design – for student and staff recruitment, engagement, knowledge transfer
3d and visualisation technologies… Massive innovation and research opportunities
The Centre for Humanitarian Data and the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) are convening a Data Literacy Consortium. The Data Playbook Beta project is a prototype of social learning designed on modularized pick-and-choose model for 30 minute to 1 hour conversations or lunch and learns. Playbooks are designed to be guided by the users and leaders to decide what ‘activity’ or ‘action’ best suits the given need.
This presentation was part of the Humanitarian Network Partnership Week (HNPW) https://vosocc.unocha.org/GetFile.aspx?xml=rss/5553avUoDK9oBXk5WjCq32t1ttUfc38nDpek4dR1ieeonUgx_27042_l1.html&tid=5553&laid=1&sm=
February 4, 2019 Geneva Switzerland
Co-hosted by Heather Leson (IFRC) and Javier Teran (Centre for Humanitarian Data)
Session goals: 1. Discuss the Data Playbook (beta) project and invite participants to co-create the Data Playbook version 1.
2. Convene a Data Literacy Consortium to support humanitarian data literacy.
Content:
https://www.preparecenter.org/toolkit/data-playbook
Organizations:
https://centre.humdata.org/
http://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/theme/data/
When we say open...h
How can open principles and methods be supported in communities & organizations How can we build in the open?
Talk given at #jam18
Barcelona November 28, 2018
https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/jam18
Heather Leson
(Revised talk)
Welcome to the IFRC Data Playbook Beta Project. It was co-created by 100s of collaborators across the globe. We aim to get data ready. We also want to warmly thank our co-editor, Dirk Slater of Fabriders.
For more details contact: data.literacy AT IFRC Dot Org
See the beta project - https://www.preparecenter.org/toolkit/data-playbook
When we say open, what do we really mean? How are open communities and organizations performing. What are some of the observations and lessons from two viewpoints – an organization (humanitarian) – International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies and global community - OpenStreetMap. How are some of the topics/challenges and issues similar and different? What can we do as open advocates to inspire and build change in organizations of all types?
Talk given October 7, 2018, Taipei, G0V Summit https://summit.g0v.tw
The International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is supporting a data-driven organization that makes evidence-based decisions. In the Humanitarian and business world, there is a data revolution. Data skills and data readiness are key components to achieve and meet the changing needs.growing a data-driven organization that makes evidence-based decisions. Our IFRC Data Literacy plan is 4 fold - connect emerging and new leaders, build learning zones, create content/products and measure impact. This is an overview of the 2017 Data Literacy Program.
Learn more - http://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/theme/data/
About IFRC - http://www.ifrc.org/
Icon Credits via the Noun Project: TNS, TukTuk, Look and Feel and Thibault Geoffrey
Created by Heather Leson. Detailed notes include resources and credits. Contact heather.leson at IFRC dot ORG
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Summit 2016 Keynote
September 22, 2016
Brussels, Belgium
Some core questions that we need to address as we build a sustainable, vibrant Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Summit.hotosom.org
hotosm.org
textontechs.com
@heatherleson
The Next Million
ESA Earth Observation Summer School
Frascati (Rome), Italy
August 8, 2016
Summary: how can we get more people involved applying technical and research skills to tackle the SDGs. Includes extensive notes.
https://earth.esa.int/web/eo-summer-school/home1
MapSwipe: Crowdsourcing with Data-Driven Innovation
ESA Earth Observation Summer School
August 5, 2016
Frascati (Rome) Italy
MapSwipe is a mobile app available in on the Google Play and Itunes store (mapswipe.org). Humanitarian organizations can't help people if they can't find them. MapSwipe is a mobile app that lets you search satellite imagery to help put the world's most vulnerable people on the map.
This talk was to share how students can consider how to apply their technical and scientific skills to help solve issues with communities.
Building a Citizen Engaged Research Project
Earth Observation Summer School, ESA
ESRIN
Frascati (Rome) Italy
August 4, 2016
Summary: How can researchers incorporate citizen science into their work? Presenting some tools, best practices and techniques from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, OpenStreetMap and Qatar Computing Research Institute.
About Summer School - https://earth.esa.int/web/eo-summer-school/home1
About HOT - https://hotosm.org/
Our Common Startup
All around the world there is huge potential to make a difference with small businesses and volunteering. This presentation is part of Impact Startup Europe 2016
Presented by Heather Leson
May 26, 2016
http://impactstartupeurope.org/
Understanding Risk Forum 2016
Presented as part of the panel Bridging the Divide: Digital Humanitarians and the Nepal Earthquake
Venice Italy
May 20, 2016
Talk by Heather Leson
Empower Digital Skills for Good
Reach out to Asia Empower 2016
Innovation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship
Doha Qatar
March 17 - 19th
Workshop on March 18th co-hosted by QCRI and UNDP
Presentation by Heather Leson, Jennifer Colville, Ji Kim Lucas and Irina Temnikova
Event details:
https://www.reachouttoasia.org/event-details/empower-2016
Data Driven Innovation in Qatar
Presentation for the Data-Driven Innovation Workshop in MENA
DDI-MENA.org
February 21, 2016
Thanks to IDRC and QCRI for this opportunity to share.
Qatar Computing Research Institute participated in the Qatar Science & Technology Park Accelerator Programme from September 2015 - January 2016.
The Team investigated business opportunities for the Crisis Computing research project.
About QCRI - qcri.org.qa
About QSTP - http://www.qstp.org.qa/
All inquires about this project should be directed to qcri.org.qa.
Digital Humanitarians in Qatar
November 29, 2015
Doha Qatar
presented by Sajjad Anwar, Mapbox
Event co-hosted by Qatar Red Crescent Society and Qatar Computing Research Institute
Digital Humanitarians in Qatar
November 29, 2015
Doha Qatar
presented by Ji Kim Lucas
Event co-hosted by Qatar Red Crescent Society and Qatar Computing Research Institute
Digital Humanitarians in Qatar
November 29, 2015
Doha Qatar
presented by Heather Leson
Event co-hosted by Qatar Red Crescent Society and Qatar Computing Research Institute
The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the absence of information. Mobile phones, new orbiting microsatellites,
and now Unmanned Aerial Vehicles increasingly generate vast volumes of data during major disasters. This flash flood of information is often referred to as Big Data, or Big Crisis Data. Making sense of this overflow of information is proving to be a near impossible challenge for traditional humanitarian organizations, which is precisely why they’re turning to Digital Humanitarians. In virtually real‐time, these cyber responders
make sense of vast volumes of social media, SMS and imagery captured from satellites and UAVs to support relief efforts worldwide. How? They craft and leverage human and
machine computing solutions.
Presented by Heather Leson
October 13, 2015
EOScience 20
Frascati Italy
http://eoscience20.org/
Be a Digital Humanitarian In Qatar
Event co-hosted by the Qatar Computing Research Institute and Qatar Red Crescent.
October 7, 2015
Doha Qatar
Presented by Heather Leson
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6. Cultural: Data about cultural works and artefacts — for example titles and authors —
and generally collected and held by galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
Science: Data that is produced as part of scientific research from astronomy to
zoology.
Finance: Data such as government accounts (expenditure and revenue) and
information on financial markets (stocks, shares, bonds etc).
Statistics: Data produced by statistical offices such as the census and key
socioeconomic indicators.
Weather: The many types of information used to understand and predict the weather
and climate.
Environment: Information related to the natural environment such presence and
level of pollutants, the quality and rivers and seas.
Transport: Data such as timetables, routes, on-time statistics.
Types of Open Data
(Source: okfn.org)
14. Storyteller
Role: Generate Ideas, interesting questions, help defining the questions and assist in the information
products/story outputs.
Scout
Role: Scouts hunt down data from across the web. They can be non-technical or technical, depending on
how difficult it is to obtain data (whether it is easily downloadable or needs to be scraped etc).
Analyst
Role: Analysts are the ones who crunch the data found by the scouts and test the hypotheses generated
by the storytellers.
“Engineers” (Optional)
Role: create information outputs (varying degrees of technical from coding to using ‘off the shelf’ tools
Designers
Role: Beautify the outputs and make sure the story really comes through the data.
15. 3. How to:
Data Clinics to
connect
entrepreneurs,
business and
government
22. What are the questions you seek to answer?
What is the license? Can you reuse/publish the data?
Is the source credible?
Is the data credible?
Where did they get their data?
How much time do I have to search?
How am I organizing my research?
Keen to learn more about verification? http://verificationhandbook.com/ (it
is in Arabic too!)
Consider
23. Who is publishing about Qatar...on biodiversity?
United States 7,440 occurrences, 97.77% geo-
referenced.
United Kingdom 832 occurrences, 8.29% geo-referenced.
Sweden 620 occurrences, 0.32% geo-referenced.
Netherlands 298 occurrences, 5.03% geo-referenced.
Source: Global Biodiversity Information Facility
24. What about data on tourism?
Source: Knoema Data Atlas, which
aggregates the World Development
Indicators, 2015
$6, 616,000,000 USD
International Tourism
expenditures for travel items
(Time for more boutique
travel startups)
25. World Bank UN Data
UNESCO Institute of Statistics
HDX WEF
Forbes: Top 35 big data sources
Visually: 30 places to find Open Data
27. Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics
In economic statistics:
Quarterly and annual Gross Domestic Product -GDP (constant and current) by economic
activity
Monthly, quarterly and annual Consumer Price Index, Production Price Index-PPI,
Foreign Trade Statistics (import and export), Building permits
In social statistics:
Labor force statistics (through a labor force sample survey)
Marriage, health, birth, fertility, education, disability, mortality statistics (in coordination with
other ministries)
In environmental statistics:
Monthly rainfall, Monthly and annual average concentrations of air pollutants, Capacities
of urban wastewater treatment plants
In population statistics: Population growth rate, Population sex ratio
28. QALM portal (Qatar Information Exchange)
QALM is an ambitious national project, developed by a number of government partners
including: The General Secretariat for Development Planning, The Statistics Authority, The
Supreme Council of Health, The Supreme Education Council, Supreme Council of Family Affairs,
ictQATAR, Ministerial Cabinet and the Permanent Population Committee.
http://www.qalm.gov.qa/
Data is available in multiple formats!
To get data from the Ministry of Development. Check their website. If you are looking for other
data, they are an email away. ICU@mdps.gov.qa
35. Open Refine http://openrefine.org/
Sublime Text
https://www.sublimetext.com/
There are many tools for software
developers and data scientists too.
Note: you still need the Human API to analyze and
make decisions for your business. Of course, if you
can afford it, then you can get your business
intelligence from KPMG, Gartner, Bloomberg,
McKinley or PWC. Until then….
Some tools to Clean Datasets
Learn more with Lillian and her
online courses.
36. Tools for Charts, Graphs and Infographics
http://tableau.com/
http://infogr.am/
http://piktochart.com/
https://www.canva.com/
More LMGTFY: http://www.creativebloq.com/design-tools/data-visualization-
712402
(source: TuktukDesign, Noun Project ccby)
37. Map tools
Mapbox: http://mapbox.com/
CartoDB: http://academy.cartodb.com/
Leaflet: http://leafletjs.com/
Google: https://www.google.com/mapmaker
ARCgis: https://www.arcgis.com/features/
Time mapper: http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/
Also: if you are collecting your own location data, try Field Papers or
crowdsource map photos with Mapillary. (They just got 8M funding!)
(source: Mister Pixel, Noun Project, ccby)
38. QCRI Combining Data Sources: Real-Time Traffic
Monitoring
● Collection and classification of traffic
related tweets (script, research tool)
● Continuous Real-time querying of
Google Traffic API
● Qatar Traffic Profiling & Modeling
○ Geo: City, zone, district
○ Time: Hourly, daily, weekly,
and monthly
● Usage:
○ Detection of abnormal
behaviors
○ Predictions
○ Monthly Public reports
■ Commute status
■ Deadpoints
39. The best way to learn
is to find data and
make data information
products.
Try to recreate the
diagrams and track
back the data.
Track how other
startups use data.
Copy. Remix.
41. Impact of Data-Driven Business
You know your business. Data can give you a
leading edge. Be a Data-Driven Startup.
Some reading:
ODI Report: The Economic Impact of Open Data
ODI - Open Data Means Business
How to build a business from Open Data (1)
How to build a business from Open Data (2)
OpenMENA - 19 studies on Open Data
42. ABC: Always be Charging
How can you have a Data-Driven Career?
What is your Data Plan for your startup?
Can you use Data-Driven Journalism techniques to improve your
business?
What kind of data do you need to grow your business?
What type of training do you want/need?
Data-Driven Startups to be held at the DIC, Qatar Ministry of Transportation and Communications
http://www.ticketfun.me/index/event?eid=999
http://textontechs.com/2016/03/primer-on-data-driven-innovation-for-startups/
Your startup is all about data. From your market segmentation analysis to your business intelligence to your customer management system and beyond. Understanding the tools and formats on how to use data and data skills makes you a business leader and a “Data Driven Startup”
To show how data-driven startups can be successful, I’ll share some data basics followed by some local and regional examples of data startups.
There are many types of data. I like to think of it in layers (mainly due to my love of maps). This diagram is to give you an picture into all the types of data and how they might interact to tell stories, do good and sell your startup outputs. Every startup will use a different combination of this.
Open Data is available in some countries and regions. Qatar currently has an open data policy and it is listed in the National Strategy . http://opendatahandbook.org/. See some of the impact via this report - http://odimpact.org/ More from https://okfn.org/opendata/
Kasra.co is an arabic online news site that targets Arabic language speakers worldwide, especially in MENA. Kasra leverages social media to assist driving traffic, mainly from Facebook. Kasra’s Facebook page has 1M followers. The News Analytics team at QCRI is working to help with social data analytics. (Team is lead by Jim Jansen, Principal Scientist) http://qcri.org.qa/our-people/bio?pid=235&par=acc&name=JimJansen
1. We are using online traffic data to assist in topic selection for their online articles
2. Goal is to understand what types of articles go viral
3. Research aim is to prediction the popularity of articles
From Kasra.co
http://goo.gl/H3mLyc
More about Kasra - http://textontechs.com/2015/08/in-their-own-words-via-kasra/
Metis is a local startup that focuses on connecting students to planning. This objective of this project is to develop student-centric academic planning software for universities and students, using elective based system, which are very flexible but imposes greater challenges for students completing on time
http://www.menafn.com/1094627802/Qatar--New-tool-helps-university-students-plan-their-courses
http://www.gulf-times.com/story/483430/New-tool-helps-university-students-plan-their-cour
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Waleed Abd El Rahman is creating a data-driven business. Making healthy nutrition available for everyone through spreading entrepreneurship. He is also connecting with local communities to help grow their business. Which brings up the important point. Let’s move beyond hackathons to ongoing sustainable growth for entrepreneurs. With the local community behind his business, he is growing his supporters and his ability to use talent to inspire. https://eg.linkedin.com/in/waleed-abd-el-rahman-1b9a6312 http://getmumm.com/
Exantium is a leading UAE-based advisory firm focusing on the public sector transformation in the GCC and the Arab world, driven by cutting-edge innovations, strategic digital transformation initiatives and world-class informational policies. http://exantium.com/ Exantium did a recent Smart Government course. http://exantium.com/?p=609, and is focused on Smart Cities. They are also an Open Data Institute Node. ODI works to connect business, government and entrepreneurs to the power of data. http://dubai.theodi.org/ hey have an upcoming course - http://www.mbrsg.ae/HOME/EXECUTIVE-EDUCATION/Open-Enrolments-Programs/Open-Data.aspx?lang=en-US
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If you are unsure of the data available, you can productively use the Data Expedition model to help seek and find all the data you might use to answer your questions Example from the amazing Kathmandu Living Labs https://twitter.com/KTMLivingLabs/status/706338515684995072
How to do this http://schoolofdata.org/data-expeditions/
How to do some data projects together http://schoolofdata.org/data-expeditions/
Note all the free courses http://schoolofdata.org/learn/
A data clinic is like a hackathon but you involve all the stakeholders to consider a project. Let’s say you have a dataset and you are trying to prove that this type of data will help business. A data clinic is a technique to work on showcasing your desire to use the data appropriately and also give the officials some insights into how the data might help business. An example from my friend Olu in Nigeria http://schoolofdata.org/tag/data-clinic/ It is always about acheiving buyin. More details “ A data clinic is a workshop where participants bring troublesome data and a data scientist/data journalist together to think about how to use the data and view it.
Data has the power to connect us to our audiences. Ferras Mohssen of BQ Magazine advised that staff called all the embassies and collected population data on Nationalities in Qatar for 2013- 2014. They took professional photos and created this map information diagram. The group did this for other GCC countries (Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain). I use this poster daily to remind myself that local social innovation has such a diverse audience. http://www.bq-magazine.com/economy/2013/12/population-qatar
Sometimes you need to collect your own data with trusted partners. QCRI worked with health professionals and two schools to get data insights into health monitoring. The proposed intervention targets Qatari nationals who are overweight or obese. It involves three phases (1) weight loss camps, (2) after-school clubs as supplement, and (3) maintenance through web and social/family support. Data could provide basis for efforts to stem the rise of obesity in Qatar through lifestyle changes.
Things we’d like to infer from these images:
- what kids *don’t* eat (e.g. leaving vegetables) and if this is personal (= different preferences)
- how they eat (e.g. many kids leave the cutlery clean and unused, others make a huge mess)
- track their calorie intake
Using Crowdflower to label the images, Instagram, mobile data collection
Partners: Qatar University, Imperial College and Leeds
OpenStreetMap is a global map of the world - free and opensource. It counts on local communities to always improve the map with data. Imagine if we had a map of Doha to help businesses. This data is pure diy raw business intelligence. All you have to do is look at groups like Mapillary or Mapbox or Cartodb to see how people are using Maps and location data. Here is how - http://learnosm.org/en/
The Data Pipeline really varies from project to project. There are tools, skills and activities common to some projects. I like to add ethical questions and more. See my article - http://textontechs.com/2014/09/infusing-ethics-into-data-projects/ and the Responsible Data Forum’s work on a project lifecycle - https://wiki.responsibledata.io/Data_in_the_project_lifecycle
You are now on a data expedition. while you are doing this research, you should get ready to answer some of these questions. If you are really keen to learn more about verifying data, consider reading the Verification Handbook. http://verificationhandbook.com/
Also be responsible with your data - http://responsibledata.io/
I found out on my data expedition that the Global Biodiversity Information Facility has free and open datasets (about 54 datasets about Qatar from a number of sources.) While maybe not useful for startup, it makes you wonder how these could be used for studying the SDGs. Or, if you are doing a tourism startup. more on that topic soon. Source http://www.gbif.org/country/QA/about/countries. No date provided on the data.
It is always a good idea to ask questions about the sources and check the dates. Where are they getting this data? Is it predictative? Can it be reused? could we have it in another format? Source: http://knoema.com/atlas/Qatar/Expenditures-for-travel-items but the data is really from the World Development Indicators which is the World Bank. http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators
Here is a quick list of some data sources available http://blog.visual.ly/data-sources/ https://data.hdx.rwlabs.org/ http://data.uis.unesco.org/ http://data.worldbank.org/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2016/02/12/big-data-35-brilliant-and-free-data-sources-for-2016/#a10f86667961 http://data.un.org/ http://reports.weforum.org/global-competitiveness-report-2015-2016/economies/#economy=QAT
Location data is key for many businesses. There are a few startups here who are using map data. I am just providing some free sources. How to download data: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Downloading_data.
Data Journalism is simply using data to tell a compelling story. Well, startups do that every day with their investors, supporters and customers. You need to differentiate yourself. This is just another item to add to your toolkit, right by ‘how to stay financially viable’.
The Qatar Census is full of usable business intelligence. The data is available on QALM, but let’s say you did not find it. How would you get access to the data? You just need to use it. PDF -
Tools - http://tabula.technology/
I loaded the 111 pages of census data into Tabula. The next step is put the csv into open refine or another too. (QALM also allows you to download into excel if you wish)
Doha News either transcribed the data or used a tool to clean up the data and load it into Tableau. http://dohanews.co/what-are-the-fastest-growing-neighborhoods-in-qatar/
(Census data: http://www.gsdp.gov.qa/portal/page/portal/gsdp_en/knowledge_center/Publications/Tab7/Tab/Census%202015.pdf)
Tableau http://public.tableau.com/profile/peter4596#!/vizhome/ChangeinQatarspopulation2010-2015/Dashboard2
This is just another example on how data from a census can be used to help people see details about their communities. In this case, it was about education and age. At Open Data Day on March 5, 2016 a team in South Africa used census data to do this. They used a tool called plot.ly https://plot.ly/~collierab/457/count-vs-age/
This is just a sampler of Data Visualization tools. You can find more all over the net like this great guide http://visualisingadvocacy.org/:
Noun Project: http://nounproject.com/
more on vis tools and to decide https://blog.infogr.am/15-thought-leaders-define-what-is-data-visualization/
Map tools - http://fieldpapers.org/
My colleagues are working on Real-time Traffic monitoring as part of the Urban Informatics team. Where did they get the data? Google, Social media, Admin boundaries. Doha over time - http://earthshots.usgs.gov/earthshots/node/69#ad-image-0
There are many ways to think about data skills for good. In fact this is how I learned some of these techniques and innovations. The Digital Humanitarian Network is a group of people and communities that do this for humanitarian activities. http://digitalhumanitarians.com/ I would like to point out DataKind and the Standby Task Force. Learning about how people use information for social good is about taking care of our future. It is also a good way to see how you can apply these learnings to social entrepreneurship.
How to collect data to help your career - http://www.slideshare.net/heatherleson/using-your-voice-to-amplify-your-career-may-14-2015
Thanks so much for your interest in QCRI. @qatarcomputing
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