Within the rich San Marino Design workshop 2015 agenda organized by the Università degli Studi di San Marino and the Università IUAV di Venezia, I was invited to hold an intensive 5 days workshop about Open Data and Data Visualization.
The aim of the workshop was to understand how the data released by the public administration (not in Open data format yet), combined with other data sources and the use of data visualization, can help to unveil and describe unexpected aspects of a territory.
In the first phase of the workshop the 13 participant, divided in 4 groups, had to examine the datasets released by the public administration of San Marino about different topics (turism, commercial activities, demography, employment, etc) and choose a subject to explore through data visualization. In a second phase the students had to think about other possible data sources (social media, data released by civic organizations, etc.) that could be combined with the initial datasets in order to broaden the research and find interesting insights.
The students that decided to focus on the turism of San Marino for example, decided to combine the datasets about the turistic flows and accommodations with the metadata of the pictures taken in San Marino and uploaded on Flickr in order to see which areas of the Republic were more photographed and how the turists move on the territory.
To see the results and descriptions of the works download the posters produced by the students (only in italian sorry).
During the workshop the students had the possibility to test some new features and charts of the new version of RAW (more news coming soon).
I would like to thank:
The Università degli Studi di San Marino and the Università IUAV di Venezia and all the people who organized the workshop.
Elisa Canini, the tutor that helped me in the organization and the teaching activites of the workshop.
All the participants that attended the workshop with great enthusiasm: Lucia Tonelli, Bucchi Maria Cecilia, Grenzi Paola, Bocci Chiara, Falsetti Duccio, Leurini Luca, Marazzo Hillary, Barone Raffaella, Lampredi Luigi, Mosciatti Raffaele, Ponsillo Nunzia, Sotgiu Maria Chiara,Moccia Antonio, Michela Claretti.
