Innovations in data literacy in a globalizing world
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2016
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The way data is collected, communicated and utilized is constantly changing. Collection occurs across multiple domains in informal and formal ways; communication targets various levels of stakeholders in the decision-making process; and data is increasingly open, social and over-abundant, making it imperative that consumers understand the dimensions and consequences of available information. With an increasing onus on the consumers of data in the decision-making process, it is important that data is communicated to support data literacy across a diverse set of stakeholders. Thus, planners play a critical role, given that urban environment harbor and produce substantial data sets. There is a need for planning curricula to adapt to this data revolution in ways that extend beyond innovative data collection techniques to consider the life-cycle of data, from collection to dissemination to action. This includes skills that span research methods, community engagement, and data visualization. Historically in planning, community engagement strategies have been a particular research method central to soliciting civic participation.1 And while design communication is critical to the pedagogy of traditional design disciplines,2 it is not ubiquitous across planning curricula. This paper links the ways by which community-based data is collected with the way it is visualized, so that visualization and communication are central to the research design and decision-making processes that derive from the data.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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