Transcript Mine of Information or Minefield?

Mine of Information
or Minefield?
Making OECD Data
Accessible
Toby Green
Head of Publishing, OECD
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org
ICSTI One-Day Workshop: Delivering Data in Science, Paris. March 5th 2012
Datasets
Mine?
or
Minefield?
Specialist audiences
“Stop showing off! We get it.”
Ordinary mortals
“I have a fear of heights and
long division.”
MAKING DATA UNDERSTANDABLE IS AS
IMPORTANT AS MAKING IT ACCESSIBLE
Challenge # 1
Which flavour of GDP do you
need?
Challenge # 2
What do these codes mean?
Challenge # 3
Now I have to choose countries?
How can I compare different national currencies?
And what does “current prices” mean?
“Mmm ... Please can
I have some more,
sir?”
“and me”
“But what about
me?”
How about this?
• Ready-made by an expert
• Ready-to-download in PDF or Excel
• Stable and linkable (via DOI)
Mine?
Minefield?
Saying it with Flowers
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