For the last 15 months the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany has been working on a prototype to monitor progress towards the sustainable development goals (SDGs) from an independent, civil society-led perspective. There’s a detailed blog post on why such independent monitoring is necessary at our
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Using D3.js and reveal.js for better organised data presentation
D3.js is a Javascript library for attaching data to web elements for the purposes of visualising the data. Once the visualisation is more than a little complicated, this usually means generating SVG elements. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a vector graphics format – it’s a text based description of lines, points and so on. Due
read moreBangladesh Savar building collapse - hopefully the last clothing factory disaster but certainly not the first
A write-up of pulling together and visualizing numbers on garment factory disasters in Bangladesh
read moreVisualization Course, week 5/6: The final project!
My final project compares the price of making longer journeys by car or train in Germany, and also the change in these costs over time. There are many more things it would be fun to explore: the impact of fuel tax in Germany, or the breakdown of costs in car …
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Still way behind, our challenge for week 4 was to take something from a 92-page KPMG report and make an infographic. As much of the course content for week 4 was about cartography, I felt I needed to get a map in there somewhere.
Actually, I only used one page …
read moreVisualization Course, week 3
Its been a rough couple of weeks with sickness in the family, and I'm a bit behind with the course. Nevertheless after pouring over some sample data for week 3, I've taken a stab at the exercise. I haven't had time to look at other people's ideas/entries yet, but …
read moreVisualization Course, week 2
I haven't had as much time to get into the course this week in terms of making illustrations, or even any helpful criticism of my chosen graphic. There was a lot to read and watch - the general theme was on what forms to use for visualization and how to use …
read moreVisualization Course, week 1
Birgit and I (Matt) have enrolled ourselves in a massive open online course on Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization, run by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas and taught by Alberto Cairo. Although both of us have years of experience visualizing experiment results, the areas of infographics …
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