The document discusses open data and data visualization. It provides links to sites about open data related to development. It discusses the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard and examples of open data projects in Uganda and Malawi. It outlines elements of data visualization like time, location, topics, and networks. It provides examples of tools for getting, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing data. Finally, it lists tutorials and sites for learning more about data visualization and tools like Google Refine, Fusion Tables, and Gephi.

1. Open Data and Visualisation
Brownbag meeting Centre for Development Innovation
Mirjam Schaap, February 2013

2. OPEN DATA

3. Sites about open data / development
Open for Change
http://openforchange.info/
Open Development (video)
http://vimeo.com/49827002
Worldbank Open Data log
http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/

4. G8 Open Data for Agriculture
https://sites.google.com/site/g8opendataconference/
IFPRI open data for agriculture
http://www.ifpri.org/event/open-data-agriculture-side-event-ifpri
Publish What You Fund
http://www.publishwhatyoufund.org/
Open Aid Partnership
http://www.openaidmap.org/

5. IATI
IATI Standard is a technical
publishing framework
allowing data to be
compared.
http://iatistandard.org/

6. UGANDA
• http://openspending.org/ugandabudget
• http://www.publishwhatyoufund.org/uga
nda/uganda-with-
data.htm#/%5E/2004/~/aid-and-
domestic-spending-in-uganda-br----usd-

7. Data WORLDBANK
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.1524.LT.FE.ZS/countries?display=map

8. • http://www.openaidmap.org/mappingMalawi.html

9. SOURCES for Open Data
• http://openspending.org/
• http://datacatalog.worldbank.org/

10. VISUALIZING

11. Source: the Guardian

13. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-equALq5HJQ4/URbcddVnJlI/AAAAAAAAICE/zBwY0_qHcss/s1600/GraphImage.png
http://technologyandsocialparticipation.blogspot.nl/

14. Elements in data visualisations
• When (temporal) : trends – patterns - correlations
• Where (geospatial): maps
• What (topical): worldclouds
• With whom: network visualisations

15. Get data
• Open data
• use APIs (twitter, YouTube etc.)
• Scrape
Merge + clean data:
• google spreadsheets
• Excel
• Open refine (was google refine)
Perform calculations on data (analyze)
• R
• google spreadsheets,
• Excel
Visual output
• Charts : google spreadsheets – Tableau
• Maps: google fusion tables
• Networks: gephi, Node XL, Netlogo

16. Examples - tutorials
Social Network Analysis Using the Twitter API
http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/social_network_analysis_for_journalists_using_the_twitter_api
Grabbing Twitter Search Results into Google
Refine and Exporting Conversations into Gephi
http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/grabbing_twitter_search_results_into_google_refine_and_exportin
g_into_Gephi
• https://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=food%20security
• https://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23foodsecurity
• Google refine: https://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
• Google Fusion Tables + Spreadsheet: via google drive

17. Nice sites on visualisation
Visualisation
• https://drawingbynumbers.org/
• http://www.scimaps.org/
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog
• http://datamarket.com/
• http://vizthinker.com/
• http://www.dataviz.org/
• http://visual.ly/
• http://www.creativebloq.com/design-
tools/data-visualisation-712402
• http://www.tableausoftware.com/
Tutorials Google Refine/Fusion Tables
• http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resources
Geographic Visualisations
• http://worldmapper.org
• http://www.gapminder.org/data
• http://spatialanalysis.co.uk/
Social Network Analysis
• http://gephi.org/
• http://nodexl.codeplex.com/
Free courses
• http://ivmooc.cns.iu.edu/
• http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/
• https://www.coursera.org/#course/sna
www.delicious.com/mirjamschaap #open_data #dataviz #visualise #ict4dev

18. Centre for
Development
Innovation
www.wageningenUR.nl/cdi