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Really Useful Data project

With aims to provide insight on elements of data and design literacy, and describe patterns for using either for informational and learning purposes.

"Really useful data, designed and engineered right."

Related events

Roadmap

Quick to do list;

  1. Finish transfer of research notes
  2. Add additional info and data sources
  3. Focus on accessible methods of creating vis.

Key questions

  • What data sets and sources are useful for our purposes?
  • What types and examples of visualisation are available?
  • Methods for display a relation between data and media?
  • How to build and manage a system for visualising data?

Data

data, noun

  • facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis: there is very little data available
    • the quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer, which may be stored and transmitted in the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media.
    • Philosophy things known or assumed as facts, making the basis of reasoning or calculation.

See also Coding#Data_types_and_structures, Coding#Stats_and_big_data

Learning

Open Data

See also Open

"in 2009 and 9 the American Government launched data.gov - 'a comprehensive catalogue of data provided by federalo agencies and represents transparency and accountability in groups and officials... how the government spends tax dollars' - (YAU 2011)

Data.gov.uk - Opening up Government More than 9000 data sets

"As of April 2010 the following UK Government departments and agencies have provided data sets to data.gov.uk:BusinessLink, the Cabinet Office, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Department for Children, Schools and Families, the Department for Communities and Local Government, theDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for International Development, the Department for Transport, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department of Energy and Climate Change, theDepartment of Health, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Home Office, Her Majesty's Treasury, Lichfield District Council, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Justice, the Northern Ireland Office, theOrdnance Survey, and the Society of Information Technology Management.

"All data included in data.gov.uk is covered either by Crown Copyright, the Crown Database Right or have been licensed to the Crown. In turn, all data available on data.gov.uk is available under a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive license which permits use of the data under the following conditions: the copyright and the source of the data should be acknowledged by including an attribution statement specified by data.gov.uk, which is 'name of data provider' data © Crown copyright and database right. the inclusion of the same acknowledgement is required in sub-licensing of the data, and further sub-licenses should require the same. The data should not be used in a way that suggests that the data provider endorses the use of the data. And the data or its source should not be misrepresented"

Semantic Web

  • Semantic Web is a Web of Data — of dates and titles and part numbers and chemical properties and any other data one might conceive of. The collection of Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SKOS, SPARQL, etc.) provides an environment where application can query that data, draw inferences using vocabularies, etc.

Linked Open Data

RFD
OWL
SPARQL
LOV
JavaScript
Search
Other

See also MediaWiki#Semantic

UK

  • http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/find/hasset-thesaurus/skos-hasset This new resource is an outcome of the Jisc-funded SKOS-HASSET project, led by staff at the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex, which owns and manages HASSET. Like dictionaries, thesauri describe the changing world around them; this is why the UK Data Archive continues work to ensure HASSET is up to date. Simple Knowledge Organisation System(SKOS) makes the thesaurus machine-readable. It is the version of Resource Description Framework (RDF) specific to classification resources. It encodes these products in a standardised way to make their structures comparable and to facilitate interaction.
BBC
Government
Education

Scotland

National

"Action 2.4 We will develop proposals with partners for releasing more government information and data for use by the public. Initial proposals to be developed and implementation to begin by end of July 2011. We invite suggestions for areas where the greater availability of public data could lead to new services or innovative applications " - March 3 2011

NHS
Local

Ireland

Europe

USA

Gloal

Crowdsourced

Geo

Commercial

Development

JavaScript

Articles

Scraping

Platforms

  • CKAN is a fully-featured, mature, open source data portal and data management solution. CKAN provides a streamlined way to make your data discoverable and presentable. Each dataset is given its own page with a rich collection of metadata, making it a valuable and easily searchable resource.

Visualisation

Media that represents data and other knowledge to help provice a mental context and scale

visualize, verb

  1. form a mental image of; imagine: it is not easy to visualize the future
  2. make (something) visible to the eye: the DNA was visualized by staining with ethidium bromide

See also Organisation#Knowledge

Quotes

From the Keller Paper;

Ware says “power of a visualization comes from the fact that it is possible to have a far more complex concept structure represented externally in a visual display than can be held in visual and verbal working memories". In this regard, visualizations are cognitive tools aiming at supporting the cognitive system of the user. Visualizations can make use of the automatically human process of pattern finding (Ware, 2004). They can draw both on the visual and the spatial working memory system (Baddeley, 1998; Logie, 1995).

COX;

Compared with an informationally-equivalent textual description of an information a diagram may allow users to avoid having to explicitly compute information because users can extract information ‘at a glance’ (p. 2). “Such representations work best when the spatial constraints obeyed by representations map into important constraints in the represented domain in such a way that they restrict (or enforce) the kinds of in- terpretations that can be made” (Rogers & Scaife, 1997, p. 2). They can help to ex- ploit the rapid processing capabilities of the human visual system and very easy per- ceptual judgements are substituted for more difficult logical ones (Paige & Simon, 1966). Chabris and Kosslyn (in this book) suggest the principle of ‘representational correspondence’ as a basic principle of effective diagram design. According to this principle visualizations work best if they depict information in the same way that our internal mental representation do.

- Get the above academic details for bibliography

Info and news

Tutorials

Design, data and vis basics;

d3;

Learning

See also Learning

Journalism

Examples

People

Creating

See JavaScript, JS_scripts#Visualisation

Google

Gap Minder

Google

other

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