CEC online climate change platform kickoff meeting presentations made Thursday, March 22. Presentations here include: * Presentation by Tom Adkins (11:30 - 12:15p ET) * Discussion: Core Goals and Purpose (facilitated by Tom Adkins) (1:15 - 2:00p ET)

1. CEC Platform on Climate Change
Needs Assessment Kickoff Meeting
Presentation on Data-Driven Web Platforms
March 22, 2012
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2. Presentation Goals
1. To provide an overview of the needs assessment project plan
2. To give you an overview of our methodology and the key
questions we’ll be asking
3. To establish a common technical vocabulary: “web services,”
“data visualization,” “social media”
4. To inspire your creativity with examples of some best
practices from around the internet
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3. Project Plan: Phase 1
Goal: To establish a shared, tri-national
vision for the web platform
Action Item: Interviews with officials from
the three national governments
Deliverable: First draft of needs
assessment report, outlining a shared vision
Timeline: Interviews through mid-April,
First Draft delivered April 27
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4. Project Plan: Phase 2
Goal: To present platform design options that meet the
requirements established in Phase 1
Action Items: Interviews with target audience
members, stakeholders with relevant expertise; final meeting
with CEC staff to review options
Deliverables: Second Draft of needs assessment report
with multiple platform design options; final draft of needs
assessment with selected platform design options
Timeline: Interviews through mid-May; Second Draft
delivered May 25; Final Draft delivered June 29
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5. Methodology
The key questions we’ll be asking
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6. Most Websites Fail
• They fail to define a core service to perform
• They fail to define an audience to serve
• They fail to anticipate the true costs of
maintenance
• They fail to differentiate themselves from
existing websites and web services
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7. Core Purpose:
Jobs to be Done
What is the core purpose of the web platform?
What problems does the platform seek to solve?
What job are we hiring the platform to do?
• Stay practical, rather than abstract
• Focus on actual, existing needs that aren’t being
met elsewhere
Discussion @ 1:15pm
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8. Real Climate
http://www.realclimate.org
Job to be done: provide a forum for
sophisticated discussion for current issues in
climate science
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9. Audience
Who does this web platform serve?
Discussion @ 1:15pm
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10. Climate-L
http://climate-l.iisd.org/
Job to be Done: aggregate information that is professionally
useful to policy experts working on climate change in an
international context
Audience: policy experts and government officials working
on climate change, particularly those closely connected to UN
organizations or international development banks
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11. Information Consumption
and Datasets
What data and information will users consume using
the web platform?
Are there specific datasets the platform should serve?
In what format(s) should we serve the data?
Discussion @ 2:00pm
Discussion on GHG Project @ 3:15pm
Discussion on Carbon Sources Project @ 3:45pm
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12. Web Services
1. Publishing Web Services (Data goes out)
2. Consuming Web Services (Data comes in)
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13. Web Services
Simple Website: Web Service Architecture:
HTTP between a browser Data served in defined formats (XML, REST, SOAP, JSON, RSS) that can be
and a single server. consumed by any number of client-side applications. Results in improved
information sharing, interoperability.
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14. Publishing Data-Driven Web Services Enables
Data Visualization
Tables - Charts - Graphs - Motion Graphics
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15. data.worldbank.org
maps.worldbank.org
Mapping for Results visualizes the locations of World Bank
Bank-financed projects to better monitor development
impact, improve aid effectiveness and coordination, and
enhance transparency and social accountability. In
combination with the subnational socio-economic
indicators such as poverty, health, malnutrition, and
population density it helps to better target development
assistance.
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16. Information And Communication
• Visualization should reveal hidden patterns and
trends within the data
• A visualization should help make a discovery
or tell a story
• The data should transform to a visual that
is quickly understood
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17. munterbund.de
Munterbund showcases the results of research graphical visualization
of text similarities in essays in a book. “The challenge is to find forms
of graphical and/or typographical representation of the essays that are
both appealing and informative. We have attempted create a system
which automatically generates graphics according to predefined rules.”
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18. nytimes.com This animated visualization overlays data on government benefits
onto a county-by-county choropleth map of the United States.
The Geography of The arrows on the top right enable users to animate through
Government Benefits decades, going back to 1969. On scrollover, the choropleth map
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/12/us/
reveals a time series graph for the corresponding region against the
entitlement-map.html national average. The left-hand sidebar shows detailed breakdowns
of the data by different government programs.
And most importantly, the guide to key trends provides a narrative
for noteworthy regions and patterns.
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19. nicholasrapp.com An intuitive look at new jobs added at the top 100 companies to
work for, according to Fortune.
http://nicolasrapp.com/wp-content/uploads/
2012/01/best_companies_gfx.gif Number of new jobs added or lost is on the horizontal, and number
of employees at the start of the year on the vertical. Bubble size
represents number of job applicants.
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20. Consuming
Web Services
• Creating a “Mashup” Effect
• Outsourcing Jobs to Be Done
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21. LinkedIn API
Job: tells you who you are connected to at
a given organization
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22. Quora
Job: find credible answers to good questions
via crowdsourcing
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23. Social Media
• web-based
• participatory
• dialog is the media consumed
To succeed in social media, you must to
incentivize and organize a community of users.
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