A workshop on open source tools for data driven decision making, designed for people with limited tech experience and resources
1 min readSep 14, 2019
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