Data Visualization Training

SIAP Headquarters, Chiba, Japan
6-8 November 2019
TRAINING AGENDA
Date/Time

9:15 – 9:45

ActivityPresenter

DAY 1 – 6 November 2019
Opening Ceremony
Data Visualization Principles and Tools
Opening Ceremony• Host’s Welcome Message
Mr. Asish Kumar
Director, UN Statistical Institute for Asia-Pacific• Opening Message and agenda-setting
Mr. François Fonteneau
Programme Coordinator, PARIS21 Secretariat• Partners message
Mr. Lakshman Nagraj Rao
Asian Development Bank
Introduction of participants, SIAP and MIC staff, and PARIS21/ADB
resource persons

9:45 – 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 – 12:30

Session 1: Key Principles and Tools• Lecture on: Data visualization key principles• Discussion on: Advanced tips for more impact• Quiz/exercise• Lecture on: Which tools to use?

Quiz/exercise
12:30 – 13:30

Lunch Break1

Date/Time

Activity

13:30 – 15:00

Session 2: Which Data Viz to choose?

Presenter• Lecture/discussion on: Choosing the right Data Viz

Quiz/exercise
15:00 – 15:30

Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:00

Session 3: Discussing Examples• Examples explained: the good, the not-so-good, and the bad

Country sharing: participants to present the data visualization practices
in their agencies
17:00

9:00 – 10:00

Summary and Closing of Day 1
DAY 2 – 7 November 2019
Practicing Static Data Visualization andIntroduction to Interactive Data Visualization
Session 4: (Re)discovering the Tools Everybody Uses (Exercises)• Data visualization with MS Excel• Data Visualization with Tableau Public

Data Visualization with R
10:00 – 10:15

Coffee Break

10:15 – 12:30

Session 5: Static Data Viz guided exercises• Guided exercises in chosen tool
- Group 1: MS Excel and Tableau Public- Group 2: R

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:15Session 6: Introduction to interactive data visualization• Lecture on: What is interactive dataviz and what is it used for• Quiz/exercises

Lecture on: Browsing and discussing examples
15:15 – 15:30

Coffee BreakDate/Time
15:30 – 17:00

Activity

Presenter

Session 7: Technologies for interactive data visualization• Lecture on: Investigating technologies

Practice and exercises
17:00 – 17:15

Summary and Closing of Day 2

17:15 – 17:30

Group Photo

17:30

Networking Event / Cocktails

DAY 3 – 8 November 2019
Practicing interactive data visualization and organizational aspects
9:00 – 10:30
Session 8: Practicing interactive data visualization with D3.js• Lecture on: Introduction to web basics and D3.js
Quiz/exercises
10:30 – 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:30

Session 9: Guided exercises with D3.js
Guided exercises (example build)

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:45

Session 10: Good organizational practices and next steps• Country sharing- Practice and insights from NSO Japan- Presentation: Practice and insights from NSO Mongolia• Implementation considerations and next steps

15:45 – 16:30

Session 11: Evaluation and closing• Evaluation• Main take-aways
SummaryDate/Time
16:30 – 17:00

Activity

Presenter

Closing Ceremony and Awarding of Certificates• Partners’ Closing Messages

Mr. Ashish Kumar, Director, UN SIAP
Mr. François Fonteneau, Programme Coordinator, PARIS21Secretariat• Awarding of Certificates

Mr. Ashish Kumar, Director, UN SIAP
Mr. François Fonteneau, PARIS21 Secretariat
Mr. Nagraj Rao, Asian Development Bank