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Every picture tells a story

Giovanni Alfredo Barbieri, Stefano De Francisci, Michele Ferrara, Antonio Pitrone

ISTAT - Italian National Institute of StatisticsDivision of Users’ Needs, Integration and Territory

Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge

Cape Town8 - 10 December 2010

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- Statistics eXplorer at Istat

- Data to see, stories to tell

- Data to see, stories to tell

Outline

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Data, Data Warehouse, Data Visualization

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I.Stat: the Istat Corporate Data Warehouse

Hypercube

Dataset

Theme

Sub-theme

INDICATORSINDICATORS

TERRITORYTERRITORY

YEARSYEARS

IND

ICATO

RS

TERRITORY

TIM

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Statistical Table

Thematic Structure

The customization has involved the graphical layouts, the interfaces translation into the Italian language, the setting of the software according to the owned hardware

The statistical contents are broken into themes and sub-themes and are based on multidimensional data structures (Hypercubes)

The project I.Stat has been implemented through the customization of the OECD.Stat, the OECD Data Warehouse

Release datesMay 2010: beta version on the Istat IntranetJuly 2010: beta version on the Istat Web site December 2010: official launch

http://dati.istat.it

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Istat.eXplorer: GeoAnalytics Visualization Tool

Storytelling

Dynamicscatter plots

Thematicmaps

Integratedgraphs

Statistics eXplorer – developed by NComVA - is a web compliant application that enables users to explore simultaneously spatial, temporal and multivariate data from multiple perspectives, to discover interesting relationships, to share their incremental discoveries with colleagues and finally to communicate selected relevant knowledge to other users.

In August 2010 Istat and NComVA concluded a Technical Services Agreement to Use Statistics eXplorer at Istat

Ultimate goal is to develop Istat.eXplorer as the corporate GeoAnalytics Visualization environment.

Now we are going to employ Statistics eXplorerfor NoiItalia, a publication which provides data by regions, enabling users to exploit all the features of this application.

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Hypercubes structure of I.Stat

Indi

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Territory

Tim

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One regionOne yearOne indicator

All the regionsOne yearAll the indicators

One regionAll the yearsAll the indicators

Some regionsSome yearsSome indicators

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« Ce qui se passe c'est que vous avez une immense masse d'informations, pas seulement une masse, on peut dire un flux, un flot d'informations, et même un déluge d'informations. J'ai un ami *Royan Scott qui dit: on vit le deuxième déluge; le premier déluge c'était l'eau, le deuxième déluge c'est le déluge d'informations. »

Jessica Hagy “Needles and haystacks and such.”

http://thisisindexed.com/2009/10/needles-and-haystacks-and-such/

(P. Lèvy)

Information deluge

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http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/schirrmacher09/schirrmacher09_index.html

« The term informavore characterizes an organismthat consumes information. It is meant to be a description of human behavior in moderninformation society, in comparison to omnivore, as a description of humans consuming food. »

The informavore

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…it is a component toolkit for dynamically exploring time-varying, geographically referenced and multivariate attributes simultaneously AND to enable the capture of the interactive visual process into information packages that allow the analysts to communicate their discovery and decision recommendationshttp://vita.itn.liu.se/gav?l=en

GAV = GeoAnalytics Visualization Framework

Spatial visualization

Storytelling

Publishing

Multidimensional engine

Data

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Statistics eXplorer

Statistics eXplorer: Vislet

Vislet: embeddable interactive motion visual representations based on statistical data including choropleth map, scatter plot, parallel coordinates (profile plot), table lens and metadata for publishing in blog, wikis etc. HTML code that characterizes the story-to-be-told is automatically created by the eXplorer authoring toolhttp://ncva.itn.liu.se/explorer/vislets?l=en

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Storytelling, or the weaving of a narrative

Hans Rosling and Gapminder

Istat and NoiItalia(traditional version)

Oecd and Young people and the jobs crisis in numbers

“…behind the actor stands the storyteller, but behind the storyteller stands a community of memory”

(H. Arendt)

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“Storytelling, or the weaving of a narrative out of the actions and pronouncements of individuals, is partly constitutive of their meaning, because it enables the retrospective articulation of their significance and importance, both for the actors themselves and for the spectators”

(H. Arendt)

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Storytelling, or the weaving of a narrative

To see the data, to tell a story

Storytelling

Dynamic

Interaction

Integration

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NoiItalia 2011: Using eXplorer

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NoiItalia 2011: Using eXplorer

Dynamicgraph

Storytelling

Metadata

DownloadStatic text

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NoiItalia 2011: Using eXplorer

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NoiItalia 2011: Using eXplorer

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NoiItalia 2011: Using eXplorer

DEFINITIONS

SOURCES

PUBLICATIONS

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NoiItalia 2011: Using eXplorer

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NoiItalia 2011: Using eXplorer

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NoiItalia 2011: Using eXplorer

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NoiItalia 2011: Using eXplorer

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NoiItalia 2011: Using eXplorer

Integration scenario. A vision

Regions

Years

Indicators ValuesIN

DICATO

RS

TERRITORY

TIM

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ETL / WS

Graphs

Storytelling

Data Warehouse

Hypercubes

NoiItalia.eXplorer

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Storytelling and ready-made visualization

“Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand”

Authoring tool

Vislet

Storytelling

Ready‐made

Joseph Cornell, Cassiopea (assemblage)

The history of an Emigrant

“Data are not intrinsically boring. Neither are intrinsically interesting”(S. Few)

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Data, wisdom &…

“Information is notknowledge. Knowledge is notwisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty.Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.”

“Our networks are awash in data. A little of itis information. A smidgen of this shows up asknowledge. Mix in experience, context, compassion, discipline, humor, tolerance, and humility, and perhaps knowledge becomeswisdom”

(Jonathan G. Koomey)

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