Team Virtual Dreams – BrazilBruno França dos Reis – Popfly User Name - bfreisRoberto Sonnino – Popfly User Name – robertos

Eduardo Sonnino – Mentor

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What’s in this plan The problem The solution Main functions Some mashup possiblities The blocks Outreach plan

The problem Lots of world data is available, but it’s hard

to analyze We can’t associate changes in world

indicators with historic events easily New visualizations are needed to create

relationships between data and enable better solutions

End users don’t have easy access to data and analysis tools

The solution: Mix world indicator data from Gapminder

with an RSS with events in a Timeplot graph to analyze causes and consequences of the world’s problems!

KnoWorld allows you to:Compare indicators visually and create new

conclusionsEmpower the home user with easily-accessible

world dataCreate new visualization possibilities!

Millennium Goals affected All of them! Users can create mashups using

more than 200 indicators that correspond to all UN Millennium Goals

With some creativity, users can create visualizations and monitors for all the official UN Millennium Goal indicators

View the official UN indicator list at http://tinyurl.com/mdg-ind

Architecture Two core components:

Gapminder data (more than 200 world indicators from UN, World Bank, and others)

Timeplot visualization (plot a series of data and events vs. time)

Additional components:Google Charts (bar, line and map charts)Country Flags (get country flag images for mashups)Country Codes (get the country code from its name)

The main mashup Gapminder + Events RSS or Data Block +

Timeplot – see event causes and consequences

Example: population of France vs World Wars – allows us to easily see the causes of unusual changes in the graph

http://www.popfly.com/users/robertos/Population%20of%20France

Some mashup possibilities Use Gapminder data with Google Charts

Map to visualize world data in a new way using a colored map

http://www.popfly.com/users/robertos/MDG%20Children%20out%20of%20School

MDG Monitor Among these possibilities, you can use

Gapminder data with Google Charts Map to implement and customize something like the UN MDG Monitors in Popfly

For example, the previous mashup simulates the MDG Monitor for the MDG 2 - Education

Original: http://www.mdgmonitor.org/map.cfm?goal=1&indicator=0&cd=

Some mashup possibilities Use Gapminder data with Country Flags to

visualize top countries for an indicator in a Virtual Earth map

http://www.popfly.com/users/robertos/Top%2010%20arms%20importers%20in%202005

Some other ideas Use Gapminder data with Google Charts Line to

mix world indicators and create new relationships

Mash with Google Charts Bar/Line to visualize and compare world indicators

Use data with Google Charts Map and an image display block to analyze the geographic situation of the indicator through time

Use indicators with Google Charts and Virtual Earth to visualize country data in small graphs in their respective locations in the map

The blocks Gapminder

Gets historic data for over 200 world indicators from Gapminder Provider: Gapminder World Data

○ www.gapminder.org○ Data comes from several different sources, such as the UN reports,

World Bank and many others. See the full list of indicators at http://tinyurl.com/gap-ind

Functions○ getByYear – retrieves data from all countries for a given indicator and

year○ getByCountry – gets all historic data for a given indicator for a chosen

country○ These functions retrieve and process huge quantities of data and might

take a few seconds to complete; please be patient. http://www.popfly.com/users/bfreis/Gapminder

The blocks Timeplot

Displays a line graph against time with a data series and marks relevant events in the graph

Provider: Simile Timeplot○ http://simile.mit.edu/timeplot

Functions○ addTimeSeriesAndEvents – displays a graph with the time series

(mandatory) and events (optional). The time series format is composed of arrays of dates and values, and the events series is composed of 4 arrays for the dates, titles, descriptions and links for the events

This block may not work correctly with IE8 Beta in preview mode because it uses ExCanvas to render the <canvas> element in IE, and ExCanvas is not fully compatible with IE8.

http://www.popfly.com/users/robertos/Timeplot

The blocks Google Charts

Gets the URL for an image of a bar, line or map graph using the Google Chart API

Provider: Google Chart API○ http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

Functions:○ Has one function for each chart type that receives as

input the data and outputs the URL for an image with the chart, served by Google Chart API. Allows for mashing up with image display blocks, maps and many other blocks.

http://www.popfly.com/users/bfreis/Google%20Charts

The blocks Country Flags

Gets a flag image URL from a country name or codeProvider: Flags of the World and i.HBTronix.de○ www.fotw.net and i.hbtronix.de

Functions:○ getSmallFlag: outputs the URL of a flag image at

i.HBTronix.de, having as input the country name or code.

○ getLargeFlag: outputs the URL of a flag image at Flags of the World, having as input the country name or code.

http://www.popfly.com/users/robertos/Country%20Flags

The blocks Country Codes

Gets the two-letter code from a country nameFunctions:○ getCountryCode: outputs the two-letter country

code for the given country name http://www.popfly.com/users/bfreis/Country%20Codes

Outreach plan Intended public:

Researchers○ Research local and global data to create innovative relationships,

enabling new forecasts and solutions○ Possible contacts: University teachers, researchers and students

Geography and history teachers○ Use to create a more interactive class, show interesting or updated

data on relevant matters, and raise awareness○ Possible contacts: Schools and universities in Brazil and France

NGOs○ Use to raise awareness by publishing mashups and analyzing local data

to create new solutions and action plans○ Possible contacts: WWF, Greenpeace

General home users○ Enable everyone to access, use, mashup and visualize data from world

indicators with ease, for a multitude of uses

Outreach plan: how? Direct contacts with researchers, teachers

and NGOs Posts in team members’ blogs Direct contact with friends Articles about the block construction

process in community sites (ex. CodeProject.com) to create adoption from developers

Conclusion KnoWorld gives everyone the power to see,

analyze, compare world indicators and establish links between them

It enables institutions to create new relationships and find the real causes of our problems and consequences of events

KnoWorld is a powerful tool to help deal with world raw data and turn it into real solutions!

Thank you!Team Virtual Dreams – Brazil

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