Hi,
I'm glad to share my recent work with Pharo/Roassal in the form of a
minisite[1] and a detailed blog entry[2] arguing about interactive
environments for increasing understanding and participation in data
phenomena:
[1] http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/panama-papers/doc/tip/index.html
[2] http://mutabit.com/offray/blog/en/entry/panama-papers-1
Using a relatively simple visualization I advocate for this case. The
bigger issues here were not related with visualization, but with
accuracy/completion of the information. For example the original
RTSVGPath includes only 167 world territories, but Panama Papers
mentions over 210. Improving accuracy lead to hunting a bug and to its
bugfix. So we have a more cleaver reader for SVG in Roassal. I was
fighting for several days with newbie errors (like the one on the
download bar not advancing, despite of the download being made).
I think that this are good exemplars on how Pharo Roassal is a superb
moldable and affordable platform on the issues of data oriented
reproducible research (in journalism and/or activism and others).
Comments and suggestions are welcomed, as always.
Cheers,
Offray
