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This is a list of resources prepared for Effective Data Strategies for Activist and Advocacy Campaigns and Data Tactics for a Post-Fact World workshops
- The Data Tactics Workshop Curriculum is a detailed plan for the workshop that has all the exercises we used plus timings.
- Hacking User Centred Design for Social Change Efforts has examples of how to develop profiles, along with TechToHuman’s Hacking User Stories and Jobs to Be Done & Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – Bad User Stories but also see this example from Cadasta.
- Leave Your Potatoes at Home is a detailed case study on developing visualisations from data about police violence against sex workers.
About Post-Fact and Data Confusion
- The Guadian’s Longread on How statistics lost their power
- Zara Rahman’s post detailing ‘data-driven confusion’ Critical Data Literacy
- Mona Chalabi’s TED Talk How to spot a bad statistic
- DATA STORIES Podcast: Uncertainty and Trumpery with Alberto Cairo
- DATA STORIES Podcast: Disinformation Visualisation with Mushon Zer-Aviv
On Data Use in Advocacy from FabRiders:
- What I’ve Learned about Data Advocacy
- What I’ve Learned about Privacy, Data & Digital Tools
- Wbat I’ve Learned about Mapping Violence:
- Questions to Ask Frequently (QAFS) when working with Data and Marginalised Communities:
- What I’ve Learned about Maps
For Understanding Data:
- FabRiders’ Data Advocacy Essentials
- School of Data’s DataFundamentals
- DataBasics.io – a collection of easy to use web tools that introduce concepts around working with data.
- The Responsible Data Forum
For finding Data:
- School of Data’s Guide to Finding Data:
- Countries that release data can be found at Datacatalogs.org
- Open Access Directory’s data repository list: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories or the Open Knowledge Foundation’s datahub.io
For Prepping Data:
- School of Data/Tactical Tech’s Gentle Guide to Cleaning Data:
Inspiration For Visualising Data:
- MakeOver Mondays – A weekly social data project
- Tactical Tech’s Visualising Information for Advocacy
- Global Witness’s The Power of the Info-Graphic
- The Guardian’s Development Projects – How to make infographics: a beginner’s guide to data visualisation
Tools
- Tactical Tech’s big roundup Visualising Information for Advocacy Tools –
- Ushahidi’s Crowdmap –
- Open Refine
Using Technology in Advocacy:
- Transparency & Accountability Initiative’s Fundamentals for Using Technology –