TY - GEN
T1 - Visual analytics for open government data
AU - Artigas, Francisco
AU - Chun, Soon Ae
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The Open Government Data initiative accelerated publishing and sharing of diverse government data with enterprises, software developers and citizens. The key challenge with this unprecedented amount of government data is to make sense of them in a timely manner i.e. find the meaning of the data to assist in decision making. The analytical tools and apps to filter, sort, aggregate for summary along different spatio-temporal dimensions will help find trends and outliers. The capabilities to combine diverse data from different sources may also help users to understand the information and knowledge embedded in data sets. One of most powerful data exploration and analytics is data visualization. In this tutorial, we present two different tools for visual exploration and analytics for citizens and researchers, making use of diverse data sets from different sources, such as government, social media and enterprise or personal collections. Specifically, we focus on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for mapping data using ArcGIS Explorer, a cloud based data integration and visualization tool and Google Fusion Tables for tabular data. The tutorial is geared toward social science researchers, students and citizens in general.
AB - The Open Government Data initiative accelerated publishing and sharing of diverse government data with enterprises, software developers and citizens. The key challenge with this unprecedented amount of government data is to make sense of them in a timely manner i.e. find the meaning of the data to assist in decision making. The analytical tools and apps to filter, sort, aggregate for summary along different spatio-temporal dimensions will help find trends and outliers. The capabilities to combine diverse data from different sources may also help users to understand the information and knowledge embedded in data sets. One of most powerful data exploration and analytics is data visualization. In this tutorial, we present two different tools for visual exploration and analytics for citizens and researchers, making use of diverse data sets from different sources, such as government, social media and enterprise or personal collections. Specifically, we focus on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for mapping data using ArcGIS Explorer, a cloud based data integration and visualization tool and Google Fusion Tables for tabular data. The tutorial is geared toward social science researchers, students and citizens in general.
KW - GIS Geographic Information Systems
KW - Google Fusion Tables
KW - Google chart tools
KW - Tutorial
KW - Visual analytics
KW - Visualization
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U2 - 10.1145/2479724.2479729
DO - 10.1145/2479724.2479729
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84880563752
SN - 9781450320573
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 298
EP - 299
BT - dg.o 2013 - Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference
T2 - 14th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference: From E-Government to Smart Government, dg.o 2013
Y2 - 17 June 2013 through 20 June 2013
ER -