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

miska knapek miska at knapek.org
Tue Jul 30 09:00:35 UTC 2013 

Michael,

Thanks, yes, sounds about right.
Alas I never quite got on Scraperwiki to see how it was in the good old
days.  But it sounds quite right.

At the risk of being a usability clog, I just hope there's a way of making
the interface such that everyday users don't get confused by all the
possibilities.

Perhaps some kind of voting system, for favoured views, would also be
useful.

Speaking of which, perhaps one might suggest 'standards' for making
'standard' overview visualisations, such that, if not already created, some
user could have some helping guides for making a visualisation of the data
that provides a fair overview and index of it.
( Others might want to focus on some aspect of the data, such as
significant details, and save those as views available for others ).

Yes, again, apologies for now having seen old scraperwiki. Probably a lot
of good ideas can be had from there.


( I should contribute some more to this discussion, as it's rather
personally interesting, but I've got a few distractions in my life
occupying my schedule slightly. More later/soon I hope ).


All the best for new,

miska







On 29 July 2013 18:03, Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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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> > >    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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> > > Message: 1
> > > 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
> > > To: <School-of-data at lists.okfn.org>
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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
> > > Head of Services | skype: whythawk | M: ?+44?(0)?78?9495?7090 |
> @GavinChait
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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"
> > >         <school-of-data at lists.okfn.org>,        Ross Mounce <
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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
> > > > http://okfn.org/
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