1. Data Publishing at OECD
Past. Present. Future.
The Now and Future of Data Publishing,
a symposium, 22 May 2013, Oxford, UK
Plenary Panel 1:
Where are we now? What’s new?
Why the new initiatives? What are the benefits?
Toby Green
Head of Publishing
toby.green@oecd.org
2. More data than you can shake a stick at!
So how do we publish for everyone’s benefit?
Including him
3. User profile Typical task
Policy advisor Preparing for a speech
Business analyst Client business advice
Researcher/ Statistician Data crunching for a report
University Librarian Assisting someone with a data query
Journalist Creating a topical story and graphic
NGO / Citizen with a cause Facts to support an argument
Undergraduate student Essay (for tomorrow morning)
Data aggregators/resellers Aggregate data with other sources
Developers Build an App or Viz
Who uses our data?
4. “Let me find,
understand and
use
the data I (really, really) need.”
What they really, really want . . .
5. So how do we publish for everyone?
We add a little value . . .
6. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
CD-ROM
DatasetsDataAnnuals
MOBILE
IndicatorAnnuals
MOBILE
CitationTool
Shareable,Embeddable
DataPortal
Monographs,
Papers
MOBILE
Online Browser
Machine-Machine
Stories,
Vizualisations
eXplorer
Better Life
Index
DataLab
SinglePublishingPlatform
7. “Let me find, understand and use
the data I (really, really) need.”
8. Looking ahead . . .
• Data Apps (IOS and Android)
- iEconomy
- Factbook launched yesterday!
• Cool new embeddable, shareable and
personalisable charting tool (in beta)
• New Data portal (2014)
No sheep (or Spice Girls) were harmed in the preparation of this presentation.
Thank You