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Formation Data literacy - AFD

Agence Française de Développement - 19 juin 2017 - Paris
Equipe transformation numérique - Agence Française de Développement

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Outils que nous allons utiliser: Pour cet atelier, vous aurez besoin d'installer un éditeur de code (ex. Bracket or Notepad++, ces editeurs peuvent être installés sans droits administrateurs de votre poste);

Nous utiliserons également:

! Pour gagner du temps au cours de l'atelier, merci de vous inscrire au préalable sur jsfiddle et carto


I. Basic introduction to data representation [15min]

  • What, and why dataviz ?
    • Better understanding
    • Communication
    • Interactivity and Story telling
  • Using packages with Stata, Python and R
  • SIG using cloudbased soft Microsoft Office 365' PowerBI and Carto

Practical: Create a heatmap with Carto [30min]

  • map Kenya Health sites using CSV file from HDX plateform;
  • Map Cameroon population in 2015 using the data in the Github folder (CMR sub)

II. Basic instroduction to the web languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript [20min]

  • Basic introduction to HTML, CSS
  • Introduction to SVG

JavaScript library & dataviz

When data comes in [10min]

  • Data are not only stored in xls!
    • Text format to store data: CSVs, TSVs, etc.
    • Structured text data:
      • Intro to XML
      • Intro to JSON
      • Intro to YAML

III. Getting real time data: from scrapper to API, the data revolution: [20min]


Practical: Create a DataStory with Highcharts and Carto

  • health
  • Education
  • sociaux economic conditions etc. You can use data sources such as the World Bank indicators, UN OCHA HDX platform, etc.

Further reading:

  • Friendly, M., 1999, "Re-Visions of Minard", link
  • Friendly, M., 2008, "A Brief History of Data Visualization" link
  • Lupi, H., Posavec, S.,2016, "Dear Data", http://www.dear-data.com/
  • Yau, N. 2011, visualize this: the flowingdata guide to design, visualization, and statistics link
  • The Smithonianmag:"The Revolutionary Infographics of W.E.B. Du Bois And Booker T. Washington" link
  • ToucanTouco, Infographie vs Dataviz: Faites la différence. Link
  • Tufte, E. R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT, 1983.
  • Hagley, J. What is the difference bewteen infographic and dataviz ? Link

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