Data Visualization Developments at the IMF
IMF Data Mapper
Innovations at IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings
Visualization in Data Management Tools
International Seminar on “Innovative Approaches to Turning
Statistics into Knowledge” – 8-10 December 2010, Cape Town
Patrick Hinderdael, International Monetary Fund
phinderdael@imf.org
Agenda
Overview of Data Visualization at the IMF
• Context and Objectives
• Business Perspective
• Technology Spectrum
Data Visualization Developments
• IMF Data Mapper
• Innovations at IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings
• Visualization in Data Management Tools
IMF Data Visualization Tools
Context and Objectives
• Leverage data visualization tools and techniques to improve
the effectiveness of data and policy
communications
• Provide a platform for dissemination of key economic
indicators from a variety of publications
• Promote collaboration with other organizations to share and
disseminate data
Communication & Dissemination
Dissemination
IMF Traditional & “New” Outputs Analytics
Paper Desktop Web
Publication Quality Outputs
e.g. WEO & GFSR Staff Reports Working Papers etc. PowerPoint Presentation Graphics embedded in html Data Mapper on IMF.ORG Le v el of interact ions Dy n a m ic A n im a te d S ta tic Physical Media DM & Statistical Packages Excel & PCF / IMF Map Tool
Data Mapper Intranet Sandbox
PGI Website
Data Visualization - The Business Perspective (Updated 2010)
Economic Data Dissemination Mac Keynote Presentation iPad
IMF News & Data App
Touch Screens Interactive
Content Display
Paper Desktop Web
Le vel of in ter ac ti ons Dy n a m ic A n im a te d S ta tic Physical Media Publishing Software
e.g. Adobe InDesign
MS Office Products & Add-ons
(e.g. Excel & PCF / IMF Map Tool) Data Management
& Statistical
Packages Custom RIA Development e.g. ECB’s FlexCB
framework BI & Data Viz Tools e.g. Crystal Xcelsius
Tableau UUorld
Web Design Tools e.g. Adobe CS Java Microcroft .Net e.g. WPF, Silverlight MOSS Excel Services SQL Reporting Services
Data Visualization - Technology Spectrum (Updated 2010)
Authoring Tools (e.g. Freelance)
HTML 5 iOS4
IMF Data Mapper - Communication
Effective use of
data and data
visualization as
part of
multimedia
presentation of
a lead “story”
IMF Data Mapper - Collaboration
Principal Global Indicators (PGI)
A website that brings together data for the major economies available from
international agencies covering the financial, governmental, external, and real sectors, and provides links to data in web sites of
international and national agencies.
Economic Data Warehouse (EDW) DataMapper SQL IMF DataMapper Places a HTTP call to
the EDW through SDMX web service to
read xml Upload Excel to SQL
SDMX web Service XML
IMF Data Mapper – New Features
Offers additional capabilities for data extraction and
analysis, such as new types of charting capabilities (e.g. dynamic bar charts) and innovative
features to “explode” groups and regions, search for indicators.
IMF Data Mapper – New Features
The internal version of IMF Data Mapper offers capabilities to export charts for use in animated
presentations . The example shows an interactive heat map.
Click the Play button to see it in action
IMF Data Mapper – New Features
The internal version of IMF Data Mapper offers capabilities to export charts for use in animated
presentations. The example shows an interactive bubble chart.
Click the Play button to see it in action
IMF Data Mapper – Future Enhancements
Future enhancements include a spider chart for fiscal index, a
histogram and distribution charts with quartiles ,and combinational charts.
IMF Data Mapper – User Feedback
Internet blogs
• Path of Growth, an useful instrument that permit to display in a graph and interactive view the estimates of the International Monetary Found (IMF)
I’m really happy I was able to find this website, since so many of the websites I’ve been reading have
incomplete data.
• An excellent interactive map that graphically compares IMF member statistics, from 1980 to 2014. • Visualize It! with IMF Data Mapper
Lets you visualize data from some of the IMF's major sources, including World. It is a good free source for
creating visual displays of international economic data.
• Cool interface to compare economic data across countries and time
I love the ui
• Trade data sets are large and often difficult to interpret. The new IMF Data Mapper is a brilliant new
on-line tool for Simplifying the data and showing policy-relevant relationships.
Used for college education materials
• The IMF Data Mapper creates a visualized picture of key macroeconomic data from some of the IMF’s major sources, including World Economic Outlook.
• If you're in need of a good visual representation of the World's economic outlook, check out the IMF’s Data Mapper.
News and articles
• Global food security crisis
use IMF data mapper to get an insight into Haiti’s economic outlook, including key facts on demography,
economy and balance of payments.
• Really useful site for international trade professional
IMF Data Mapper – Usage Statistics
Weekly web usage statistics for IMF Data Mapper shows peak views during
IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings, following the release of WEO data, and following significant economic events
IMF Data Mapper on iPad
Proposed Development
Ideas and proposals to port IMF data
Mapper to iPad Raised questions about portability to other mobile platforms Native iPad development vs. HTML5
Innovations at IMF/WB Annual Meetings
Touch Screen Displays/Microsoft Surface
3D Data Mapping
Touch Screen Displays
3-D Data Mapping
Use of 3-D map provided by UUorld to present uneven recovery and capital flows.
Cartogram and Resized Maps
Use of combination of heat map, cartogram changes and resizable maps to represent 2011 growth outlook.
Click the Play button to see it in action
Visualization in Data Management Tools
Economic Outlook Suite (EcOS), a modern data
management solution with coordinated data
visualization in various stages of data life cycle to
generate data products, such as WEO
• Data browsing/editing
• Data validation
• Data analytics
• Reports
Dynamic online reports - Web
Static reports - Screen
Publication ready tables/charts in EMF format (with CMYK
