Data Publishing at OECDPast. 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 GreenHead of Publishing

toby.green@oecd.org

More data than you can shake a stick at!

So how do we publish for everyone’s benefit?

Including him

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?

“Let me find,

understand and

use

the data I (really, really) need.”

What they really, really want . . .

So how do we publish for everyone?

We add a little value . . .

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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

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