Making OECD Data Accessible Toby Green Head of Publishing OECD httpwwwoecdilibraryorg ICSTI OneDay Workshop Delivering Data in Science Paris March 5 th 2012 Mine Minefield ID: 490974
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Mine of Information or Minefield?
Making OECD Data Accessible
Toby GreenHead of Publishing, OECDhttp://www.oecd-ilibrary.org
ICSTI One-Day Workshop: Delivering Data in Science, Paris. March 5
th
2012Slide2
Mine?
Minefield?
DatasetsorSlide3
“Stop showing off! We get it.”
Specialist audiencesSlide4
“I have a fear of heights and long division.”
Ordinary mortalsSlide5
MAKING DATA UNDERSTANDABLE IS AS IMPORTANT AS MAKING IT ACCESSIBLESlide6
Challenge # 1
Which flavour of GDP do you need?Slide7
Challenge # 2
What do these codes mean?Slide8
Challenge # 3
Now I have to choose countries?
How can I compare different national currencies?
And what does “current prices” mean?Slide9
“
Mmm
... Please can I have some more, sir?”Slide10
“But what about me?”
“and me”Slide11
How about this?
Ready-made by an expert Ready-to-download in PDF or Excel Stable and linkable (via DOI) Slide12
Mine?
Minefield?Slide13
Saying it with Flowers
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