The Data Visualization Style Guide Collection
This resource is a collection of style guides to help individuals and groups improve their graphic literacy and create better data visualizations.
Resources
The Release of “The Hand-Book of the Modern Development Specialist”
The engine room is excited to release new adaptations of the responsible development data book that we now fondly refer to as, “The Hand-Book of the Modern Development Specialist: Being a Complete Illustrated Guide to Responsible Data Usage, Manners & General Deportment.”
The Big Data Framework
This reference sheet provides a framework on what you need to consider and plan for when using Big Data.
Holistic Information Security for Human Rights Documentation
This is a working resource intends to provide assistance to identify risks throughout the responsible data project life cycle. It aims to support human rights documentation practitioners in particular.
Introducing New Tech Into A Low Tech Environment
This is a working resource designed to assist those working in low tech environments on how to consider integrating new technology into their work.
Responsible Data Reflection Stories
Nine structured stories on the unforeseen challenges and (sometimes) negative consequences of using technology and data in advocacy.
Summaries and recordings of discussion mini-series on de-identifying data
In response to requests from the community to address questions and challenges around de-identifying data, we hosted an online discussion mini-series on this topic from June to November 2015. While there is a clear understanding of the importance of de-identifying data and the possible harms that can result from questionable practices, there is also confusion […]
Data vizualisation – links and articles
A living collection of articles and links about data visualisation – for the RDF event on Data Vis. To add resources to this list please tweet at #RDFviz! Interesting articles and debates The Style Guide Collection – PolicyViz A collection of guides from different organizations primarily aimed at showing people in these organizations how […]
Checklists for verifying user-generated content
The Verification Handbook is a great resource for humanitarian responders and journalists who collect user-generated content (UGC) like photos or video during emergencies. In Chapter 9, Craig Silverman and Rina Tsubaki set out a step-by-step process to verify this kind of data.
Icons to help you talk about privacy
Icons can help communicate complex ideas around privacy and surveillance in a visual way. There are several resources that you might find helpful: Jessica Klein has created a set of Privacy Icons (or Privicons), free for re-use under a Creative Commons licence. The Noun Project is also a great source of Creative Commons-licensed icons – check out the Surveillance collection, or search for privacy. OpenITP […]