Interesting work at the MIT Media Lab, where we were members for years. This looks like a good approach to examine further as a means of democratizing data. More at the Media Lab. This reminded me to get an update of their work, will publish more about it here in coming weeks.
" ... Sure, government data is publicly available, but that doesn't mean the average person can comprehend it. The MIT Media Lab's Macro Connections group is working to break down that barrier, however, and make data digestible — at least in Brazil.
A team of researchers, led by Director César Hidalgo, worked in collaboration with the Brazilian state government of Minas Gerais to develop DataViva, currently live in beta. The platform offers a variety of Web apps that turn dizzying datasets into something visual that students, fellow policy makers, entrepreneurs or your next door neighbor can more easily understand. ... "
Thinking this through, wouldn't we rather use sets of standard open source tools? It's true that linking to the data would be the hardest thing to make standard.
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