Data Visualization Developments at the IMF

IMF Data Mapper Innovations at IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings

Visualization in Data Management Tools

International Seminar on “Innovative Approaches to Turning Statistics into Knowledge” – 8-10 December 2010, Cape Town

Patrick Hinderdael, International Monetary Fund phinderdael@imf.org

Agenda

Overview of Data Visualization at the IMF

• Context and Objectives

• Business Perspective

• Technology Spectrum

Data Visualization Developments

• IMF Data Mapper

• Innovations at IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings

• Visualization in Data Management Tools

Roadmap Ahead

IMF Data Visualization Tools

Context and Objectives

• Leverage data visualization tools and techniques to improve the effectiveness of data and policy communications

• Provide a platform for dissemination of key economic indicators from a variety of publications

• Promote collaboration with other organizations to share and disseminate data

• Enhance analytical capabilities in “data products”

Communication & Dissemination

Dissemination

IMF Traditional & “New” Outputs

Analytics

Paper Web Desktop

Publication Quality Outputs

e.g. WEO & GFSR

Staff Reports Working Papers

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PowerPoint Presentation

Graphics embedded in

html

Data Mapper on IMF.ORG

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DM & Statistical Packages

Excel & PCF / IMF Map Tool

Data Mapper Intranet Sandbox

PGI Website

Data Visualization - The Business Perspective (Updated 2010)

Economic Data

Dissemination

Mac

Keynote Presentation

iPad

IMF News & Data App

Touch Screens

Interactive Content Display

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Publishing Software e.g. Adobe InDesign

MS Office Products & Add-ons

(e.g. Excel & PCF / IMF Map Tool)

Data Management & Statistical

Packages Custom RIA Development

e.g. ECB’s FlexCB framework

BI & Data Viz Tools e.g. Crystal Xcelsius

Tableau UUorld

Web Design Tools e.g. Adobe CS

Java

Microcroft .Net e.g. WPF, Silverlight

MOSS Excel Services

SQL Reporting Services

Data Visualization - Technology Spectrum (Updated 2010)

Authoring Tools (e.g. Freelance)

HTML 5

iOS4

Adobe Flash/Flex

IMF Data Mapper - Communication

Effective use of data and data visualization as part of multimedia presentation of a lead “story”

* imf.org home page as of Friday, Nov. 5,2010

IMF Data Mapper - Collaboration

Principal Global Indicators (PGI)

A website that brings together data for the major economies available from international agencies covering the financial, governmental, external, and real sectors, and provides links to data in web sites of international and national agencies.

http://www.principalglobalindicators.org

Economic Data Warehouse

(EDW)

DataMapper SQL

IMF DataMapper Places a HTTP call to

the EDW through SDMX web service to

read xml

Upload Excel to SQL

SDMX web Service XML

IMF Data Mapper – SDMX

IMF Data Mapper – New Features

Offers additional capabilities for data extraction and analysis, such as new types of charting capabilities (e.g. dynamic bar charts) and innovative features to “explode” groups and regions, search for indicators.

See example here

IMF Data Mapper – New Features

The internal version of IMF Data Mapper offers capabilities to export charts for use in animated presentations . The example shows an interactive heat map.

Click the Play button to see it in action

IMF Data Mapper – New Features

The internal version of IMF Data Mapper offers capabilities to export charts for use in animated presentations. The example shows an interactive bubble chart.

Click the Play button to see it in action

IMF Data Mapper – Future Enhancements

Future enhancements include a spider chart for fiscal index, a histogram and distribution charts with quartiles ,and combinational charts.

IMF Data Mapper – User Feedback

Internet blogs • Path of Growth, an useful instrument that permit to display in a graph and interactive view the

estimates of the International Monetary Found (IMF) I’m really happy I was able to find this website, since so many of the websites I’ve been reading have

incomplete data.

• An excellent interactive map that graphically compares IMF member statistics, from 1980 to 2014. • Visualize It! with IMF Data Mapper

Lets you visualize data from some of the IMF's major sources, including World. It is a good free source for creating visual displays of international economic data.

• Cool interface to compare economic data across countries and time I love the ui

• Trade data sets are large and often difficult to interpret. The new IMF Data Mapper is a brilliant new on-line tool for Simplifying the data and showing policy-relevant relationships.

Used for college education materials • The IMF Data Mapper creates a visualized picture of key macroeconomic data from some of the IMF’s

major sources, including World Economic Outlook. • If you're in need of a good visual representation of the World's economic outlook, check out the IMF’s

Data Mapper.

News and articles • Global food security crisis

use IMF data mapper to get an insight into Haiti’s economic outlook, including key facts on demography, economy and balance of payments.

• Really useful site for international trade professional view a world comparison of economic indicators on the IMF Data Mapper

IMF Data Mapper – Usage Statistics

Weekly web usage statistics for IMF Data Mapper shows peak views during IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings, following the release of WEO data, and following significant economic events

IMF Data Mapper on iPad Proposed Development

Ideas and proposals to port IMF data Mapper to iPad

Raised questions

about portability to other mobile platforms

Native iPad

development vs. HTML5

Innovations at IMF/WB Annual Meetings

Touch Screen Displays/Microsoft Surface

3D Data Mapping

Cartogram and Resized Maps

Touch Screen Displays

Click to play in Slideshow mode

3-D Data Mapping

Use of 3-D map provided by UUorld to present uneven recovery and capital flows.

Cartogram and Resized Maps

Use of combination of heat map, cartogram changes and resizable maps to represent 2011 growth outlook.

Click the Play button to see it in action

Visualization in Data Management Tools

Economic Outlook Suite (EcOS), a modern data management solution with coordinated data visualization in various stages of data life cycle to generate data products, such as WEO

• Data browsing/editing

• Data validation

• Data analytics

• Reports

Dynamic online reports - Web

Static reports - Screen

Publication ready tables/charts in EMF format (with CMYK compatible color) to be consumed by Adobe InDesign - Paper

EcOS Data Management Environment (1)

EcOS Data Management Environment (2)

EcOS Data Management Environment (3)

EcOS Data Management Environment (4)