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

Michael Bauer michael.bauer at okfn.org
Mon Jul 29 15:03:39 UTC 2013 

Miska,

Wouldn't this rather favor a (old-)scraperwiki style view system.

For those who never worked with it: the old scraperwiki allowed to define
views belonging to a scraper and had a wide range of javascript libraries
for visualizations available - like this one could easily create views for
the data beneath. 

Michael

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 01:09:48PM +0300, miska knapek wrote:
> 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.
> 
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> I'll try return and contribute more ideas with a bit of time.
> 
> Good idea with adding visualisation functionality though :)
> 
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> >    1. Ideas for data mashups and improved visualisation for CKAN
> >       (Gavin Chait)
> >    2. Re: Ideas for data mashups and improved visualisation for
> >       CKAN (Peter Murray-Rust)
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> > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:11:58 +0100
> > From: "Gavin Chait" <gavin.chait at okfn.org>
> > Subject: [School-of-data] Ideas for data mashups and improved
> >         visualisation   for CKAN
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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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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:56:34 +0100
> > From: Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
> > Subject: Re: [School-of-data] Ideas for data mashups and improved
> >         visualisation for CKAN
> > To: Gavin Chait <gavin.chait at okfn.org>, "Mailing list for the School
> >         of Data,        a joint initiative of the OKFN and P2PU"
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> > Very keen on Geospatial. Do you have good links/APIs to name resolvers /
> > geotaggers In CKAN.?
> >
> >
> > 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
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