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Are you looking to produce an interactive map to visualise information such as investment or finance data? In this webinar, Steve Albrecht discusses how the European Investment Fund collaborated with The Information Lab to produce an interactive map visualising investments across the EU. You’ll learn how to go from project design to technical realisation and how you and your organisation can become data-driven and resilient in the digital era.

Information can get lost in a long document. How can we get it out? In this lesson, we have three webinars that deep dive into how you can go beyond a printed document and annual report, and instead have a human-centred information design process that can be used to develop a modern, data-driven government publication that incorporates data visualisation and data-driven storytelling.

In this three-part training series on data visualisation you will learn how to turn complex data into clear, ethical, and engaging visuals. Led by data visualisation expert and professor Alberto Cairo, each 90-minute episode combines theory, hands-on practice, and curated materials to help you design visualisations that communicate insights effectively.

In this digital era, data visualisation is a critical asset and essential tool that allows people to grasp information in a second. This was also true during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic where open governmental data became crucial to sustaining and improving people’s quality of life. In this webinar, Barnaby Skinner highlightsa spectrum of impactful to less efficient examples of data repositories during the COVID-19 pandemic and shares a set of guidelines consisting of nine recommendations for data sharing policies by governmental bodies.

Furthermore, watch the session on 'The European Drug Report: using an open Data approach to improve data visualisation' where experts from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction discuss their experiences with data-driven approaches. They explore how open data has reshaped their reporting strategies, introducing more interactive visualisations. The webinar will also highlight the challenges and opportunities encountered in becoming a more data-centric organization.

There are several ways to use algorithms and machine learning to create data visualisation. In his webinar, Andreas Refsgaard shows that they can be used to enable people to play music using only their eye movement and facial gestures, to control games by making silly sounds, or transform drawings of musical instruments on paper into real compositions.

Already know the basics of data visualisation and want to improve? In this lesson, you’ll discover reading materials that illustrate how to assure data quality for visualisation, how to apply best practices on use cases, and how to do this without coding. Through the webinar with Maarten Lambrechts, you’ll also be shown practical guidelines for effective data visualisation, given concrete tools and learn to avoid common pitfalls.

Interested to see what organisations across Europe are doing with open data? Dive into our Use Case Observatory research to discover ways of monitoring and evaluating the impact of open data reuse. Our webinars and report highlight several interesting use cases of open data-driven solutions and give the floor to representatives to delve into what they are doing with open data and its impact.  

Nowadays, data has become a central component of government publications. But how can this data be presented in a way that allows others to easily access, reuse and reference it?
Formatted as an extendable checklist, this guide compiles tips, examples, resources and visual aids into a handy toolbox which will help you with all of the data-related aspects of your publication: writing about data, creating data visualisations, and preparing and publishing data.

Who is the guide for?
Anyone involved in the process of producing and publishing data and public sector information: researchers, policymakers, communications specialists, data experts, IT specialists, publication coordinators, designers, contractors…

What kinds of publication does this guide target?
Any type of published content that contains or references data: reports, studies and books, assessments, briefs and summaries, press releases, leaflets and brochures… – both in print and online. The data could be a primary source (data produced and analysed specifically for this publication) or a secondary source (third-party data that is used as supporting material).

Do you want to learn how to make data visualisations more impactful? In this webinar, Jovan Lekovic demonstrates how designing with aesthetics in mind is a step to improved data visualisations. Lekovic shares what we can learn from research in design aesthetics, and how that can help you create better-looking charts, visualisations, and reports.