An Open Vis Conf video:
> http://youtu.be/f4P6JsAKrDM
Doug Schepers (on the SVG working group for the W3C) discusses making
visualizations accessible for users with a screen reader.
Talk description from http://openvisconf.com/#schedule :
"Data visualization is an efficient way of conveying information, but
sometimes accessibility may suffer. This talk will cover well-known
challenges and pitfalls for accessible information graphics, and
describe techniques to overcome them. I will focus on Web solutions
using SVG, HTML, ARIA, and the Web Audio API. I will also describe some
of the new accessibility features in the upcoming SVG2 specification,
including the SVG Connectors module, which will allow authors to easily
build interactive SVG node-line graphs."
The other conference videos are also up:
https://www.youtube.com/user/BocoupLLC
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone,
Catching up with old notes. I really like the maps at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_National_Register_of_Hi…
. It would be very nice to have an easy, standard and automated way to
Visualize statistics on a map.
We currently gather a lot of data for different project and we usually
share these as tables (example at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Statistics).
It would be much nicer to also have these statistics as a colored in
map. For this we need:
* Base maps
* Statistics
* Color schemes to choose from
* A bot to produce the maps
Base maps are SVG maps that are used as input of the process. The maps
should contain CSS classes for the geographical entities which are in
the statistics. These maps should be available for different levels, for
example:
* World with continents map
* World with countries map
* Continent with countries maps
* Country with states/provinces/municipalities
At the moment most of these maps don't exist or are very hard to find on
Commons. We should probably have one or more galleries to keep track of
these base maps. We should have maps for every country with it's ISO
3166-2 divisions.
The statistics should be key value pairs of the location and the
percentage for the location. The keys should correspond with the CSS
classes or some logic needs to be available to do the mapping. A
standard system for this is ISO 3166-2. An example of a good source of
statistics is the
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database.
You need to have a color scheme how to represent the different
percentages. Beware of accessibility.
A bot should grab the base map, statistics and the color scheme and
combine it into a new SVG image. This image should be uploaded to
Commons on a regular basis. It would be nice to have this as a
Pywikipedia module so it's easy to have multiple people run these kind
of bots.
Did I miss anything? Is anyone already working on such a thing?
Maarten
Ps. I also put this on
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Visualize_statistics_on_…
Dear Henrique,
Thanks a lot for the suggestion.
We already asked Evan for the (absolute) count of total edits aggregated
at the country level to generate the city-level global fractions in the
same way as you suggested. He could not (or possibly did not have the
time to) point us towards the required data.
Can you please tell us from where we can source the data (of absolute
total edit counts per country per month)?
Regards,
sumandro
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sumandro
ajantriks.net