[ckan-discuss] Ideas for data mashups and improved visualisation for CKAN

Thu Aug 1 10:58:19 BST 2013

Hi Ben,

Sounds like an awesome idea. It would be great to have a call to discuss
how this plugin would work. We can provide some guidance to help make this
reusable to the wider community.

Are you (and/or the team at Vizzuality?) free to talk some time next week?

Best,
Irina

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On 25 July 2013 12:05, Ben Scott <bnm at benscott.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Gavin -
>
> We're using CKAN for the Natural History Museum's data portal, and I've
> been evaluating options for the data explorer/visualisation as it's the one
> bit of CKAN that doesn't quite meet our requirements.  We have a huge
> dataset of millions of specimens, and need map & table views which display
> all of them, so people can view species distribution etc.,
>
> The Canadensys portal is a nice example of what we're trying to do:
> http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/search?view=map
>
> So for us paging the results isn't going to work - and maybe this is a
> common issue? So we're planning on replacing CKAN's current map with
> CartoDB - it's open source and renders points server-side so you
> can display millions of items.
>
> http://cartodb.com/
> https://github.com/CartoDB
>
> We're planning on working with Vizzuality - the team behind CartoDB - to
> build a CKAN plugin to do this.
>
> I'd be great if our work could be of use to the CKAN project.  I'd be more
> than happy to give some more details of our plans - and hopefully it'd be
> something that might work for CKAN too.
>
> All the best,
> Ben
>
>
>
> On 24 Jul 2013, at 11:38, Gavin Chait <gavin.chait at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We would like to massively improve the data explorer and visualisation
> functionality on CKAN and are looking at open-source libraries and toolkits
> we may be able to use.
>
> Our brief is as follows:
>
> Search and select data from CKAN, overlay datasets the data to create
> mashups, and present these in an engaging and easy-to-use embeddable visual
> format.  Data would also include geospatial. Data could include transport,
> air quality, energy usage / resource efficiency, and licensing of premises
> /
> planning.
>
> There have been some cool new initiatives from infogr.am, Dataseed and
> Datawrapper.de. There are also some great geospatial visualisation
> libraries, like Kartograph.
>
> Our interest is in open source solutions to look at:
>
> 1. Managing diverse data alignment for the mashup;
> 2. Outputting that data to an embeddable visualisation.
>
> We can build on Recline and improve it, or we can work with another
> existing
> library that offers us greater flexibility.  We don't want to start from
> scratch, though.
>
> We would love to hear your ideas and suggestions as we look to the next
> generation of CKAN data explorer.
>
> Thanks and appreciated
>
> Gavin
>
>
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