Publishing Data Stories at a Scale

Talked at PowedByCMS held in Pune. I talk about the need to evolve CMS to support Data Stories, how we are doing it at OpenBudgetsIndia and what more can be done. The talk also covers the basic elements of data stories that CMSs should be capable of integrating. It also talks how CMSs need to evolve to cater to a new audience.

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2. “ Making India's Budgets open, usable and easy to comprehend
4. Story Generator - Provides - Data Visualizations - Indicator metadata and definition. - Reusability of Visualization.
6. Budget Basic - Budget 101
7. 39K Alexa Ranking. Current - 45K 32% - 44%. Bounce Rate. (33% Organic Search) 9.3K Datasets from 416 budget sources. Assam Government and few other districts. Government Collaboration
8. What, Why, Who and How? Building Data Stories
9. What are Data Stories. Narration Data Visuals
10. Why Data Stories? - Data makes arguments/hypothesis stronger. - Alternative to “Opinion” based stories. - Adds more Credibility, Persuasion, Engagement, Memorable.
11. Who are writing Data Stories.
12. How do you write Data Stories? Basic Elements of a Data Story
13. Textual Narrative based on Data Basic Elements of a Data Story Data Visualization. Background Raw Data. Meta Data. Annotations. Support Text. Notes.
15. “ Why data stories aren’t mainstream?
16. “ Lack of Capacity (Infrastructure and Human). Time to produce a story..
17. Building Basic Infrastructure Scale!
18. Union Budget Analysis Tool 2016-17
19. Union Budget Analysis Tool 2017-18
20. - Agile Content Generation - A custom Pretty Theme. - Diversity in Visualizations. - Custom plugins for CMS and Integrations. - Shareability. SEO - Ease to annotate, provide metadata …. - In-depth Analytics. What was Missing?
21. “ Budget Boards Union Budget Explorer
23. Components of Budgets Board Custom Visualizations/Tools
24. Apache Superset
25. Django CMS - Extensibility. Integrate Django applications. - Open Source Plugins/Addons. - Scripting API and CLI. - Flexible Architecture
26. DjangoCMS - Who is using it!
27. “ What changed?
28. “ Eliminated Bottlenecks.
29. “ More Pages. More Content. Better Quality Content. Agile Content. More Collaborations. Shorter Timelines. Better Visibility.
30. “ Good Foundation to Extend. Add new Features.
31. “ Whats next?
32. “ We need to extend CMSs with capability to accommodate new uses cases.
33. “ Open Systems. Open Source. Open Data Demand. Contribute. Github - @cbgaindia
34. Akshay Verma ◉ akshay2905.github.io ◉ Twitter - @imakshayverma, @OpenBudgetsIn ◉ Github - akshay2905 Questions?