[School-of-data] School-of-data Digest, Vol 16, Issue 7

Mon Jul 29 10:09:48 UTC 2013

Re: Ckan visualisations

General thumbs up from me, and a few others!
One of the 'missing links' of data repositories, for general users, is the
ability to see the data somehow.
I've heard several people suggest the same recently, one infodesigner at
Statistics Norway and even one innovation officer at IBM. So it's
definitely topical.

Some suggestions from me:

- Enable exploration of the data.
If the data is temporal has a high sampling rate, then it might not make
sense for the viewer to see all the data all at once. Zooming, in for
instance time and data resolution, and clipping would be great.

- Share views of the data
At the risk of added undue complication, I'd suggest that if one implements
and interface where one can define the amounts and views of the data, then
being able to save the view and have it appear in a menu, where others can
choose it too, with the data, would be great in regards to collaborative
investigations of the data.
As different datasets might need different sorts of visualisations - some
might do well with histograms, then allowing users to develop favourite
views of the data, and share these, might take a bit of the headache of
selecting useful visualisation setups for all the datasets.

I'll try return and contribute more ideas with a bit of time.

Good idea with adding visualisation functionality though :)

miska

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> From: "Gavin Chait" <gavin.chait at okfn.org>
> Subject: [School-of-data] Ideas for data mashups and improved
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> 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 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
>
>
> Gavin Chait
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> From: Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
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> Very keen on Geospatial. Do you have good links/APIs to name resolvers /
> geotaggers In CKAN.?
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> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:11 PM, 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 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
> >
> >
> > Gavin Chait
> > Head of Services | skype: whythawk | M:  +44 (0) 78 9495 7090 |
> > @GavinChait
> > The Open Knowledge Foundation Empowering through Open Knowledge
> > http://okfn.org/
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