Diving with a view

Part II of my observations from the World Bank Data Dive on poverty and corruption. It might start with the data, but for me the fun is in the analysis, especially visual. I had in fact joined the group fighting corruption because they seemed the most likely to need data exploration and visualization. Below is […]

It starts with the data

What good can data do? The World Bank and DataKind set out to further explore this question during the Data Dive held March 16 and 17 in Washington DC (#data4good). People  who rarely work together — coders, quants, data visualizers, procurement experts, economists, lawyers, students, senior managers, open data evangelists — ended up at the […]

MOOC Weeks 5-6: UK Aid to India

For our last assignment of the MOOC, Alberto Cairo decided to give us enough rope to hang ourselves: “do whatever you want”. I proceeded to swiftly spend half the allocated time deciding on a topic. Returning to aid, the subject of week 3, was a natural fit and I knew the data would be available. […]

Week 3: Aid Transparency

The third week’s assignment was right up my alley: aid transparency. It is even more disappointing then that I was not able to complete something worthy. The source data comes from the Transparency Index of Publish What You Fund and takes the form of a ranking of aid agencies according to their transparency score. I […]