A workshop on open source tools for data driven decision making, designed for people with limited tech experience and resources

Target audience:

• government agency staff
• young aspiring technologists

Skills to be taught:

• data visualization
• narrative building
• design

Theme: Given available datasets and tools, produce a digital narrative that demonstrates where, in a specific country, critical resources (ex: schools, health facilities) should be improved or built.

Supported outputs: Stand alone dashboard, Medium article, web app.

Format: Participants can form teams of any number of people. Each team gets:

• an instance of Superset, Postgres, and Metabase, where Postgres is bootstrapped with basic datasets.

• a url that serves the narrative

Workshops:

• Metabase — chart building
• Geospatial tools — kepler.gl, carto, gisida
• Superset — uploading CSVs, SQL Lab
• Medium
• Draw.io & Google slides (for creating image mashups)
• html templates (Chaining visualizations with explanations)

What we need:

• Venue
• Snacks
• Wifi
• Cloud resources — cluster of VMs or kubernetes cluster (one VM or pod per team). Red Hat could be good partner for this.
• Laptops or computers
• Workshop presenters
• Prize