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Time Distance Progress Chart of MDG implementation
20 September 2012 | mdgs, methodologies, methodology, statistics, visualisation, web resourceAnalysis of MDG implementation needs a clear distinction between the progress made in the world in the analysed period and still considerable delays in the implementation of the MDGs. Progress has...
Registration now open: Data visualisation training courses
17 September 2012 | advocacy, data, opportunity, presenting data, visualisationI recently announced the dates of my forthcoming schedule of public training courses and now you can register to book your place on these events. The schedule is repeated below. To register simply...
Assessments Mapping for International Day of Democracy, 2012
13 September 2012 | democracy, visualisationIn anticipation of this year's International Democracy Day, the UNDP Governance Assessments Programme has conducted a mapping of recent nationally driven efforts to measure democracy or aspects of...
Blogpost: Making Data Accessible to Affect Policy: Will it Work?
27 August 2012 | blogpost, commentary, indicators, visualisationBrookings has compiled a series of data that they consider to be Development, Aid and Governance Indicators. The data is meant to support “evidence-based policy analysis and foster discussions about...
Seminar: Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge, 24-26 September 2012, Seoul
14 May 2012 | knowledge, statistics, visualisationThis seminar will address the issue of making statistics more easily understandable and appealing using the latest data visualization techniques. This event will provide a platform for showcasing the...
Big Think’s Global Index of Women's Power (Big Think, 9 Nov 2010)
09 November 2010 | composite index, gender, global index, visualisation, web resourceWhile in many parts of the world today women enjoy greater power and opportunity than ever before, there are also places where women remain essentially powerless, lacking access to even basic...
Online Tour of Data Visualization Techniques (ACM Queue, 5 Oct 2010)
05 October 2010 | blogpost, data, how-to, visualisation, web resourceThanks to advances in sensing, networking, and data management, our society is producing digital information at an astonishing rate. According to one estimate, in 2010 alone we will generate 1,200...
Blogpost: How to be a data journalist (guardian.co.uk, 4 Oct 2010)
04 October 2010 | access-to-data, blogpost, data, investigative journalism, visualisationData journalism in action: the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs. Click here to read more about how the Guardian's data journalism operation worked Data journalism is huge. I...
RIGHTtoEducation Publishes the Indicator Tree - a visualisation of the right to education indicators (RtE, 29 Sept 2010)
29 September 2010 | education, indicators, visualisation, web resourceA useful way of illustrating the indicators - how they spring from shared human rights principles, how they interlink and how they grow in an almost organic fashion - is to use the image of a tree...
Review: Gapminder Desktop (Read Write Web, 24 Aug 2010)
24 August 2010 | commentary, presenting data, review, toolkit, visualisationLast month Hans Rosling, the Swedish global health professor, statician and sword swallower released a desktop version of Gapminder World, his mesmerizing data visualization tool. Named one of ...