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Fact Sheet: Emerging Data Tools

This fact sheet provides an overview of existing and emerging tools for working with data. It discusses the rising demand for data skills and expertise due to open data and big data. The fact sheet then describes common data tasks and lists examples of various types of tools, including tools for data management, mapping, visualization, and more. It aims to showcase the variety of available tools rather than providing a comprehensive list.

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Fact Sheet: Emerging Data Tools

This fact sheet provides an overview of existing and emerging tools for working with data. It discusses the rising demand for data skills and expertise due to open data and big data. The fact sheet then describes common data tasks and lists examples of various types of tools, including tools for data management, mapping, visualization, and more. It aims to showcase the variety of available tools rather than providing a comprehensive list.

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Fact

Sheet
Version April 2012

Emerging Data Tools


What is this fact sheet about? This Fact Sheet provides an overview on existing and emerging Tools and Applications to work with Data. Since Software development is a moving target, the aim of this Fact Sheet is to showcase the spectrum and variety of tools and their functionality by examples rather than aiming for comprehensiveness. Demand Charts & graphs With the rise of open data and big data, working with Gapminder is powerful open source desktop software data becomes more and more important for different for making professional-looking interactive animated actors in society, such as: governments, science, civil statistics. society organisations, advocacy groups and last but not least businesses. Working with data effectively Many Eyes is a web service for uploading data and requires certain skills and tools. then creating graphic representations for others to view and comment upon. According to a McKinsey study from 2011 there will be skills shortage in data expertise about 50-60% by 2018 Tableau Public is commercial desktop software to in the US alone. Consequently there is a need for create and share data visualizations on the web. training facilities and courses to work with the emerging tools. VIDI is a software for making charts, maps and diagrams for your website. Tools & Tasks Working with Data includes tasks like searching and Mapping & mashup accessing data, scraping data from web sites, refining, Ushahidi is an open source tool to collect, show and cleaning and parsing data, analysing data, geocoding share information about a series of events like an data and turning data into charts and visualisations. election or a crisis as it unfolds in real time, or after the fact. There are lots of tools out there and new ones are emerging to facilitate this work. These tools include TileMill is an open source desktop tool to create and command-line and browser-based tools, desktop style compelling, interactive maps. applications and web-services such as APIs. The following is a short list of tools you might use: OpenHeatMap is a web service for easy and quick creation of heat-maps from any data source in CSV or Data management tools spreadsheet format. Google Fusion Tables is an online database for creating online datasets from different sources OpenLayers is an open source tools that makes it easy allowing visualizing and publishing as maps, timelines to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display and charts. map tiles and markers loaded from any source Google Refine is a powerful software tool for working Visualisation with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from Gephi is open source desktop software for all kinds of one format into another. networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs. ScraperWiki is an online programming environment for pulling data in from any source, making mash-ups OpenSpending is a web service to analyse and and useful applications out of it. visualise budget or spending data. DataWrangler is an interactive online tool for data Choosel is an open source data visualisation tool for cleaning and transformation. web developers who build sites using Google Web Tools. The R Project is a programming language and environment to statistically explore data sets and A good overview about emerging data tools can be make graphical representations of the data. found at the Website www.drawingbynumbers.org ePSI Platform Fact Sheets provide short introductions to key concepts and developments, allowing new comers to the PSI re-use arena to get up to speed swiftly. Find ePSI Platform Fact Sheets at epsiplatform.eu.

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