#apps4md how to avoid building lame and boring apps

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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

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CreditsAll photos: Ton Zijlstra, by nc saExcept where mentioned on the photo.

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