denver event 2013 - floodlight part 1: data-driven stories that inspire people to act

Jordan Wirfs-Brock@jordanwbjbrock@piton.orgFloodlightProject.org

Data-Driven Stories that Inspire People to

Act

GOAL:

Unlock the power of data and put it into the hands of community change makers.

HOW?

Truly open data needs to address both

ACCESS and MEANING.

Images via James Kyle and Rohan Gupta, The Noun Project

Year Coordinates1790 39.27500°N 76.18667°W1800 39.26833°N 76.94167°W1810 39.19167°N 77.62000°W1820 39.09500°N 78.55000°W1830 38.96500°N 79.28167°W1840 39.03333°N 80.30000°W1850 38.98333°N 81.31667°W1860 39.00667°N 82.81333°W1870 39.20000°N 83.59500°W1880 39.06889°N 84.66111°W1890 39.19889°N 85.54806°W1900 39.16000°N 85.81500°W1910 39.17000°N 86.53889°W1920 39.17250°N 86.72083°W1930 39.06250°N 87.13500°W1940 38.94833°N 87.37639°W1950 38.83917°N 88.15917°W1950 38.80417°N 88.36889°W

1960 38.59944°N 89.20972°W1970 38.46306°N 89.70611°W1980 38.13694°N 90.57389°W1990 37.87222°N 91.21528°W2000 37.696987°N 91.809567°W2010 37.517534°N 92.173096°W

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Population Centroid Coordinates, 1790 to 2010

Map of U.S. Population Centroid, 1790 to 2010

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Data needs stories.

And stories need data.

Data Source: Denver Public Schools and Aurora Public Schools, analyzed by the Piton Foundation.

Data Source: Denver Public Schools and Aurora Public Schools, analyzed by the Piton Foundation.

Data Source: Denver Public Schools, analyzed by the Piton Foundation.

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= positive community change

A storytelling TOOL and a storytelling COMMUNITY.

Building a community of storytellers

ONLINE and ON-THE-GROUND.