Data Visualization Developments at the IMF

Data Visualization Developments at the IMF IMF Data Mapper Innovations at IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings Visualization in Data Management Tools International Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turning Statistics into Knowledge 8-10 December 2010, Cape Town Patrick Hinderdael, International Monetary Fund phinderdael@imf.org

Agenda Overview of Data Visualization at the IMF Context and Objectives Business Perspective Technology Spectrum Data Visualization Developments IMF Data Mapper Innovations at IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings Visualization in Data Management Tools Roadmap Ahead

IMF Data Visualization Tools Context and Objectives Leverage data visualization tools and techniques to improve the effectiveness of data and policy communications Provide a platform for dissemination of key economic indicators from a variety of publications Promote collaboration with other organizations to share and disseminate data Enhance analytical capabilities in data products

Analytics Communication & Dissemination Dynamic Animated Static Data Visualization - The Business Perspective (Updated 2010) Level of interactions DM & Statistical Packages PowerPoint Presentation Excel & PCF / IMF Map Tool Keynote Presentation Data Mapper Intranet Sandbox Economic Data Dissemination Data Mapper on IMF.ORG PGI Website IMF News & Data App ipad Publication Quality Outputs e.g. WEO & GFSR Staff Reports Working Papers etc. Mac Interactive Content Display Touch Screens IMF Traditional & New Outputs Graphics embedded in html Dissemination Paper Desktop Physical Media Web

Level of interactions Static Data Visualization - Technology Spectrum (Updated 2010) Java Dynamic Animated Microcroft.Net e.g. WPF, Silverlight ios4 Data Management & Statistical Packages MS Office Products & Add-ons (e.g. Excel & PCF / IMF Map Tool) Adobe Flash/Flex Custom RIA Development e.g. ECB s FlexCB framework BI & Data Viz Tools e.g. Crystal Xcelsius Tableau UUorld MOSS Excel Services SQL Reporting Services HTML 5 Publishing Software e.g. Adobe InDesign Web Design Tools e.g. Adobe CS Authoring Tools (e.g. Freelance) Paper Desktop Physical Media Web

IMF Data Mapper - Communication Effective use of data and data visualization as part of multimedia presentation of a lead story * imf.org home page as of Friday, Nov. 5,2010

IMF Data Mapper - Collaboration Principal Global Indicators (PGI) A website that brings together data for the major economies available from international agencies covering the financial, governmental, external, and real sectors, and provides links to data in web sites of international and national agencies. http://www.principalglobalindicators.org

IMF Data Mapper SDMX Upload Excel to SQL DataMapper SQL Economic Data Warehouse (EDW) SDMX web Service XML IMF DataMapper Places a HTTP call to the EDW through SDMX web service to read xml

IMF Data Mapper New Features Offers additional capabilities for data extraction and analysis, such as new types of charting capabilities (e.g. dynamic bar charts) and innovative features to explode groups and regions, search for indicators. See example here

IMF Data Mapper New Features The internal version of IMF Data Mapper offers capabilities to export charts for use in animated presentations. The example shows an interactive heat map. Click the Play button to see it in action

IMF Data Mapper New Features The internal version of IMF Data Mapper offers capabilities to export charts for use in animated presentations. The example shows an interactive bubble chart. Click the Play button to see it in action

IMF Data Mapper Future Enhancements Future enhancements include a spider chart for fiscal index, a histogram and distribution charts with quartiles,and combinational charts.

IMF Data Mapper User Feedback Internet blogs Path of Growth, an useful instrument that permit to display in a graph and interactive view the estimates of the International Monetary Found (IMF) I m really happy I was able to find this website, since so many of the websites I ve been reading have incomplete data. An excellent interactive map that graphically compares IMF member statistics, from 1980 to 2014. Visualize It! with IMF Data Mapper Lets you visualize data from some of the IMF's major sources, including World. It is a good free source for creating visual displays of international economic data. Cool interface to compare economic data across countries and time I love the ui Trade data sets are large and often difficult to interpret. The new IMF Data Mapper is a brilliant new on-line tool for Simplifying the data and showing policy-relevant relationships. Used for college education materials The IMF Data Mapper creates a visualized picture of key macroeconomic data from some of the IMF s major sources, including World Economic Outlook. If you're in need of a good visual representation of the World's economic outlook, check out the IMF s Data Mapper. News and articles Global food security crisis use IMF data mapper to get an insight into Haiti s economic outlook, including key facts on demography, economy and balance of payments. Really useful site for international trade professional view a world comparison of economic indicators on the IMF Data Mapper

IMF Data Mapper Usage Statistics Weekly web usage statistics for IMF Data Mapper shows peak views during IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings, following the release of WEO data, and following significant economic events

IMF Data Mapper on ipad Proposed Development Ideas and proposals to port IMF data Mapper to ipad Raised questions about portability to other mobile platforms Native ipad development vs. HTML5

Innovations at IMF/WB Annual Meetings Touch Screen Displays/Microsoft Surface 3D Data Mapping Cartogram and Resized Maps

Touch Screen Displays Click to play in Slideshow mode

3-D Data Mapping Use of 3-D map provided by UUorld to present uneven recovery and capital flows.

Cartogram and Resized Maps Use of combination of heat map, cartogram changes and resizable maps to represent 2011 growth outlook. Click the Play button to see it in action

Visualization in Data Management Tools Economic Outlook Suite (EcOS), a modern data management solution with coordinated data visualization in various stages of data life cycle to generate data products, such as WEO Data browsing/editing Data validation Data analytics Reports Dynamic online reports - Web Static reports - Screen Publication ready tables/charts in EMF format (with CMYK compatible color) to be consumed by Adobe InDesign - Paper

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