#apps4md how to avoid building lame and boring apps
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....And Be An Open Data Rockstar! Some tips and inspiration on how to come up with ideas for great apps that create impact.TRANSCRIPT
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How to Avoid Lame and Boring Apps
Chisinau, 18 May 2012
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and be an #opendata rockstar!
Find Your Problem (don’t ever start with the data!), find your stakeholders
• something from your own living environment (pic)
Relevant in your immediate living environment
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what data is relevant / exists, what to measure
Find Your Data Needs
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know the gov does not exist. find 1 civil servant
The Government: Find 1 Civil Servant
add your own data, not just gov data
• add your own data, helps contextualize, making it relevant to users
Your/user’s data helps to contextualize, create relevance
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simple gmap plot: songfestival
1 data set = BORING!
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/ideas912/912choleraho3.html
Let’s All Be Doctor Snow
Do 3 or more data sets!
ithere’s more than Apps alone
• it can be something internal (BI solution)
iit can be internal, e.g. for BI purposes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raider3_anime/4188993061
Networked life, networked work, networked learningArduino smart electronics
feed data into devices (sensors & actuators, Arduino)
http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from-hacked.html
use ambient displays (also outside)
• or even turn data into objects (statistics and piechart)
turn data into physical products
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23124942@N03/6885705550/
let them eat pie charts!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dakt/6974720172/
• copy copy copy (a xerox multiple times)
copy and re-use ftw!
connect across Europe and beyond
http://www.flickr.com/photos/twose/887903401/
CreditsAll photos: Ton Zijlstra, by nc saExcept where mentioned on the photo.
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