1. Tools + strategies for data collection + visualization
ISDT 2010

2. tools to help teams communicate

11. July 4, 1966

12. via wikipedia

13. early 1990s

15. 2009

18. Open Gov. Data

19. Little data:
* crime data
* parking meeter location
* maps
+
Open Source:
* Drupal
* Mapnik
* Rails

20. data.octo.dc.gov

26. www.outsideindc.com

28. www.stumblesafely.com

35. Data Visualization Matters

36. What do you call this?

37. a positive externality

38. More effective government

40. On the ground in
Program in Africa Program in Peru
Afghanistan
USAID in DC
Business
Military

41. So who paid for these great tool?

44. Funding tools
Government funding
Private sector
builds better tools
tools
Government Data Private Sector

45. Reinventing Government

46. November 19th, 2009

47. twitter.com/ericg
via cnn

48. "Afghanistan is committed to end the culture of impunity and
violation of law and bring to justice those involved in spreading
corruption and abuse of public property"
- President Hamid Karzai
3 hours ago

49. twitter.com/ericg

50. twitter.com/ericg

51. twitter.com/ericg

52. Data Sources:
• Original Polling Center Master list of 6,969 polling centers from the Independent
Election Commission (IEC).
• IEC's election prelim results from September 16th, a 2,500 page PDF.
• The Electoral Complaints Commission's (ECC) complaint data (which
aggregates only to the provincial level).
twitter.com/ericg

53. we needed a data browser

54. www.AfghanistanElectionData.org

56. The system geo codes votes down the the district level. The political boundaries for this map covered 400 districts.
Density point visualization shows results based on the Highlighted stations criteria, in this case % of stations effected.

57. Complex analysis: This Afghan ethnic distribution base layer is overlaid with districts won by Karzai (red dots) and
Abdullah (green dots). Dot size indicates the number of votes. Ethnic data is digitized from the Soviet Atlas Narodov Mira

58. Interacting with the data: you can quickly drill down to any region, as the map zooms.

59. • Percent Population Urban by District Population by District
(2003-2004) AIMS CSO Population Statistics.
• Settled Population by Province (2006-2007) Afghanistan Human
Development Report 2007, Center for Policy and Human
Development, Kabul University
• Estimated votes, via IEC’s Master Polling Center list

60. Population: 22,700
Estimated voters: 53,039
Difference: 30,339

61. Total votes: 15,023

62. Drill down in context: “Highlighted Station”
selection continues to work within both provinces +
districts

63. Per polling center data: see the affected stations
and votes within a polling center

67. security matters
photo credit boston.com

70. geography matters
via flickr: by www.pictobank.com

73. Road data: OSM provides better street data than AIMS

75. twitter.com/ericg
via wikimedia.org

77. Snow line: 1,800 meters according to FAO

79. Map Data Sources:
• Elevation information is from the SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission)
• Road information from OpenStreetMap
• Provincial and district data are from AIMS (Afghanistan Information Management
Services)

80. Opening Data with Open Street Maps

81. Mogadishu- Kinshasa

82. The OSM Community is Huge and Growing

83. http://vimeo.com/2598878

84. Last spring, over 141,000 miles of new mapping data from
Africover (FAO) was contributed to OpenStreetMap.com
twitter.com/ericg

85. + 92,817.62
mi
Congo- before Congo- after

86. + 17,212.75
mi
Tanzania- before Tanzania- after

87. + 459.29 mi
Rwanda- before Rwanda- after

88. + 17,212 mi
Kenya- before Kenya- after twitter.com/
ericg

89. + 11,609.51
mi
Sudan- before Sudan- after twitter.com/
ericg

90. + 1,796 mi
Burundi- before Burundi- after twitter.com/
ericg

91. Total
+ 141,107.17 mi
twitter.com/ericg

92. Making Beautiful Maps From Open Data

101. Flexible Data Workflow

110. Offline Mapping

123. The Future of Data Browsers