Category talk:Our World in Data

Sorting

Lovely load of thousands of images. At a quick glance I see several types, including world maps, scatterplots, and time series, and many topics including agriculture, demographics, medicine, money, and opinions. So, I'm thinking of setting up two trees within this source category, of up to a dozen types and well over a dozen topics, with intersection cats of a fraction of a hundred to a few hundred files. The new subcats would resemble whatever structure we've already got in Commons categories, and would also be subcats of that structure, where practical. Images would also be categorized outside this sourcecat tree and checked for relevant articles in EN. I normally do this kind of thing very slowly, so if it's just me it will be a year or more, with few or no checks for other language pedias that could use this material. Anyone else interested? Jim.henderson (talk) 15:16, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Creation

@Fæ: first, thank you for your great work! Second, sure you used a tool for creating all these SVG files – may as well be, some and different tools; would you mind to tell me how you generated the files? Unfortunately, many of the files (most of the world maps) are uncheckable for the W3C tools. I'd like to add the file generation description which is completely missing or all your SVG files, currently that is only possible manually for each file. -- sarang♥사랑 06:31, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

No tools, it was a unique pywikibot script that pulls data in from https://github.com/owid/owid-datasets/tree/master/datasets. It was a bit of a nightmare to get working, to be honest.

Presumably, you could scrape description from the raw github data.

See User:Fæ/OWID. --Fæ (talk) 20:28, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Maps from OWID's SDG Tracker website?

Thanks for this great work, User:Fæ. I am working on an SDG editing project and will utilise some of the maps from OWID that they have in their "SDG tracker", see e.g. here for SDG 1. The SDG Tracker is a part of OWID. Therefore, can I assume that they should all be available in Wikimedia Commons already? With my initial searches, I didn't find some of the maps but maybe I didn't use the best search method yet (I used the map's title). If I find a map that is not in Wikimedia Commons should I just download it and upload it manually? Anything in particular to keep in mind?EMsmile (talk) 13:48, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

This was a one shot experiment, testing out the JSON data file implementation on-wiki. You should feel free to update the data files or create new files as you feel is best.

Not many people have attempted to use the Data file format, my only tip is that the implementation is flawed, so test out your formats before assuming that any JSON standard will work. --Fæ (talk) 19:17, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

@User:Fæ: I am sorry to say I am not very IT-talented... I was just going to click on "Download" for their map and then save as png or svg (the two file formats that they have on offer). Are you referring to the more complete map, i.e. including the data of how it has changed over time?EMsmile (talk) 01:48, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

By the way, I have added more of these maps now to various SDG-related articles and am just so grateful that they are already available in Wikimedia Commons! Thank you! EMsmile (talk) 14:39, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

The implication was that the JSON data could be refreshed. There's no harm in uploading SVG versions if you can, in itself these can be complicated. --Fæ (talk) 14:45, 10 August 2020 (UTC)