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
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Platform
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concepts
and
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comers
to
the
PSI
re-use
arena
to
get
up
to
speed
swiftly.
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