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Friday Seminar on Emerging Issues The Data Revolution in Action Vision of a federated system of SDG data hubs and innovation platforms MARCH 2, 2018 HAISHAN FU, DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT DATA GROUP WORLD BANK 1

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Page 1: The Data Revolution in Action SDG - United Nations · 3/2/2018  · Data Catalog Data Collections Add Data My Datasets Applications Getting Started FAQs Search and Share Development

Friday Seminar on Emerging Issues 

The Data Revolution in ActionVision of a federated system of SDG data hubs and innovation platformsMARCH  2,  2018

HAISHAN  FU,  DIRECTOR,  DEVELOPMENT  DATA  GROUPWORLD  BANK

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Make Data Convenient

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The WDI Experience

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Data are often far from Convenient

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Can only download one country or indicator at a time

5‐step query tool

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Make Data Convenient:

Making Data Open

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Open data doesn’t have to be complex

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Not only query tools –linkable pages with data that can all be found by GoogleBulk downloads of CSV/XLS files + APIsStandard licenses e.g. Creative Commons Attribution.

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Make Data Convenient:Making Data (Technically) Interoperable

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Rainfall (mm)1 10 25 50 75 100 150

Technical InteroperabilityData formats (downloadable, machine‐readable)

Geo‐referencing

Open source tools

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Make Data Convenient:Making Data (Conceptually) Interoperable

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Conceptual Interoperability Extensible, open‐ended, modifiable standards

Good metadata

Future‐proofing our data ecosystem

“Premature optimization is the root of all evil” – Donald Knuth

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Make Data Credible

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Make Data Credible:Relevance, Transparency, Reproducibility

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Make Data Credible:Agile, Extensible Standards

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“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good!” 

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Learning Together

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