Robert Muggah, author of Mapping Arms Data
The First Round of the On Think Tanks Data Visualisation Competition was won by the Mapping Arms Data visualisation produced by the Igarapé Institute of Brazil in collaboration...
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The First Round of the On Think Tanks Data Visualisation Competition was won by the Mapping Arms Data visualisation produced by the Igarapé Institute of Brazil in collaboration...
The votes are in. The judging is in. And we can now officially announce the winner of the first round of the On Think Tanks Data Visualisation Competition. Drumroll...
“The doctrine of boring data serves political ends”. Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative information Data is not boring. Data can explain social and economic trends and...
A couple of weeks ago we and the Think Tank Fund launched a data visualisation competition for think tanks in developing countries. Our intention is to use the process...
Ways of communicating research are changing. New technology has led to great advances in how people access information, but also in how people can present research in a visually engaging...
In response to our previous post listing examples of videos that think tanks can use to communicate to their audiences, Robert Muggah of the Igarape Institute, a think...
On 21-23rd February, the event Balkan Peer Exchange Enhancing Analysis and Research-Based Advocacy in an Era of Open Data took place in Belgrade. The conference was...
Food for thought: data. Raw data, that is. Of anything and everything. Think tanks in many developing countries are victims of their governments' (and often colluding donors and equally...