X National Conference on Statistics – Some Video
Posted by admin | Posted in Data Sharing, Events, Gov2.0 | Posted on 19-12-2010-05-2008
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Bo Sundgren Award 2010
Posted by admin | Posted in Data Sharing, Gov2.0, World News | Posted on 17-11-2010-05-2008
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Yes, I’m delighted to report that I’ve won an award at the International Marketing and Output Database Conference IMAODBC 2010 in Vilnius (Lithuania). All participants (and speakers) they’ve just honored me with the Bo Sundgren International Award for 2010. Thank you!
This award honors every year one of the speakers of IMAODBC Conference for the best presentation. I’ve talked about Data Sharing, as you can read here.
Thank you, guys. I’m honored!
Here’s a complete list of winners from previous years:
2001 Mr Tremblant – Petteri Baer, Statistics Finland
2002 Annapolis - David Pullinger, Office of National Statistics (UK)
2003 Bath – Michael Neutze, Federal Statistical Office Germany
2004 Oslo – Antonio Argueso, Institute of National Statistics Spain
2005 The Hague – Siu-Ming Tam, Australian Bureau of Statistics
2006 Avila – Annegrete Wulff, Statistics Denmark
2007 Blarnery – Armin Grossenbacher, Statistics Switzerland
2008 Naantaly – Alan Smith, Office of National Statistics (UK)
2009 Toronto – Edwin de Jonge, the Netherlands
2010 Vilnius – Vincenzo Patruno, ISTAT (Italy)
Fammi Sapere: Conference about Open Data and Transparency in Public Administration
Posted by admin | Posted in Data Sharing, Events, Gov2.0 | Posted on 10-11-2010-05-2008
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Gov 2.0 Expo 2010: Tim Berners-Lee, “Open, Linked Data for a Global Community”
Posted by admin | Posted in Data Sharing, Gov2.0, Web Technologies, World News | Posted on 09-11-2010-05-2008
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Here an interesting talk of Tim Barners-Lee at Gov2.0 Expo last May in Washington, DC
Data Visualization on Istat’s Web Site
Posted by admin | Posted in Data Sharing, Web Technologies | Posted on 15-06-2010-05-2008
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A while ago, I had a speech in a Workshop with a colleague. The subject was Data Visualization and it was also a good opportunity to talk about Widgets, Mash-Up and Data Sharing. Here the presentation.
Data Visualization
View more presentations from Vincenzo Patruno.
How to share a whole Web application on the Web
Posted by admin | Posted in Data Sharing | Posted on 23-02-2010-05-2008
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Sharing on the Web a whole Web application. With the following example we show you how it’s possible to promote a new idea about statistical data dissemination. In this case, the application ask for data demo.istat.it, the italian Web site for population data dissemination…
Instruction:
1) Open “WordPad” o “Block Notes” on your PC. (No Windows? Any text editor is OK)
2) Copy/Paste the following “embed code”
3) Save your document on Desktop with .html extention (ie. netmig.html)
4) Double Click on the “netmig.html” icon
5) Enjoy!
Application Sharing
Posted by admin | Posted in Data Sharing | Posted on 19-02-2010-05-2008
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A new border for electronic data dissemination 2.0
Posted by admin | Posted in Data Sharing | Posted on 15-10-2009-05-2008
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We have already talked about new opportunities for electronic data dissemination of official statistics. In a previous article entitled “A new border for electronic data dissemination” (available only in italian) we talked about API and Web Services, showing also how was possible to build-up a Mash-up application. As example we considered a Mash-Up between ISTAT‘s (The Italian Institute of Statistics) official data on resident population coming form demo.istat.it through the use of two public Web Services and Maps obtained using the Google Maps API. In this article we are going to talk rather about Widgets.
This is a Flash Object. To see it you need a related plug-in installed on your Browser. The Chart shows us the net migration in the year 2008 for the municipality of Rome – Italy. If someone of you would like to insert that chart on your own web site or blog, then you can use the following code.
The result of copying and pasting the code into a web page is to embed the chart into the page. It’s exactely the same behaviour we have when we use the “embedding code” closed every movie on Youtube to share it on our own site or a Social Network. An interesting feature to underline is that no copies of the chart are made. The chart always remains on the original server. Every time the chart will be displayed on any web page, it will be downloaded from that server. The advantage is a centralized management of the widget. If for instance you change the chart content adding a new data or you wish to modify the colours or the layout, all new changes will be displayed on the same time on all sites and blogs that embedded the chart using the code shown before. It creates a direct “channel” between the data producer and the data consumer. When new data will be released by the Italian Institute of Statistics, all web pages containing the embedded widget will show automatically the updated data, all at the same time and without middlemen. In fact all data displayed on the chart come directely from demo.istat.it, although the Widget is stored physically on my personal web site. In the previous example I used the XML/SWF Charts at www.maani.us, but we can buil-up all charts we need, also charts more specific for statistical data visualization.
Not only charts but also tables. In this case we used data coming from the Web Service oat demo.istat.it with the Google Visualization API. It’s a small Mash-up that you can embed on your web page using the following code.
Or using the following Javascript
The code 058091 corresponds with the municipality of Rome. You can change it with the code you prefer. You can use the official Istat’s Municipalities Code List or more simply you can use the following application that returns the code of each italian municipality, the code of the related province and the code of the region for the year 2008. So if you wish to display data about an italian province, you can use on the widget only the three digit code (ie 058) while you can use the two digit code to display the regional net migration.
The World Wide Web seems to be born for sharing data and information. And sharing statistical data embedding it in web sites, blogs and social networks in a really simple way, without middemen and with the possibility to update it outright on all sites that sharing the widget is a big opportunity. Certainly a new border in the statistical electronic dissemination.
