Integration of Data and Interfaces to Enhance
Human
Understanding of Government Statistics:
Toward the National Statistical Knowledge Network
NSF Grant EIA 0131824

 

Toward a Statistical Knowledge Network Project Meeting

May 9, 2003
9:00-12:30
BLS Room 8

         9:00 Introductions and Review Project Goals
         9:15 Ontology and Glossary
         9:30 Interfaces to data
       UMD team
        
Update on:
     –      
Help Strategies for Complex User Interfaces
             FedStats page redesign study
         Coordinated visualizations: PairTrees 
        
Improving the Accessibility of Maps with Spatial Audio 
        
Visualizing Missing and Uncertain Data
       UNC team
        
Relation Browser
        
Automatic Slicing and Dicing
        
DataHunter
         10:30 Break
         10:45 Metadata
     –      
Metadata user study
     –      
Update on metadata issues
         11:30 Next steps and Discussion
            Agency assistance in getting data and metadata, agency plans for metadata and data dissemination in
        months/years ahead

           Usage summaries for sites (unique visitors vs repeat, etc.)
           Ideas for extensions to state and local
    –      
Symposia for June-August
    –      
Support for 03-04
    –      
Conferences and papers
    –      
Next all-project meeting
         12:30 Adjourn

 

 

The GovStat Project is managed at the Interaction Design Laboratory
at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Last Updated 5/6/2003