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epsiplatform.eu / @epsiplatform
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How to Avoid Lame and Boring Apps
Chisinau, 18 May 2012
tonzijlstra.euknowledge work, learning, social media
and be an #opendata rockstar!
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Find Your Problem (don’t ever start with the data!), find your stakeholders
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• something from your own living environment (pic)
Relevant in your immediate living environment
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Networked life, networked work, networked learning
what data is relevant / exists, what to measure
Find Your Data Needs
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Networked life, networked work, networked learning
know the gov does not exist. find 1 civil servant
The Government: Find 1 Civil Servant
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add your own data, not just gov data
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• add your own data, helps contextualize, making it relevant to users
Your/user’s data helps to contextualize, create relevance
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Networked life, networked work, networked learning
simple gmap plot: songfestival
1 data set = BORING!
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/ideas912/912choleraho3.html
Let’s All Be Doctor Snow
Do 3 or more data sets!
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ithere’s more than Apps alone
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• it can be something internal (BI solution)
iit can be internal, e.g. for BI purposes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raider3_anime/4188993061
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Networked life, networked work, networked learningArduino smart electronics
feed data into devices (sensors & actuators, Arduino)
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http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from-hacked.html
use ambient displays (also outside)
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• or even turn data into objects (statistics and piechart)
turn data into physical products
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23124942@N03/6885705550/
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let them eat pie charts!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dakt/6974720172/
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• copy copy copy (a xerox multiple times)
copy and re-use ftw!
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connect across Europe and beyond
http://www.flickr.com/photos/twose/887903401/
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CreditsAll photos: Ton Zijlstra, by nc saExcept where mentioned on the photo.
Slides: Ton Zijlstra, by
Slides: http://slideshare.net/epsiplatformBlog: http://zylstra.org/blogContact: [email protected]: ton_zylstra
tonzijlstra.euknowledge work, learning, social media