The Atlas of Global Development

 

Measuring progress & communicating global trends

16.1%

Share of population living on less than 3 dollars per day in Côte d'Ivoire, 2025

Embedded progress viz

Bringing the Atlas to a wider audience

Scrolly example

Eye candy: particles, animations, smooth transitions

Mobile friendly, robot friendly, referenced

 

Collaborating on the Atlas

Custom cms, preview, art direction, reusable components

 

Handling data

.xlsx, .xls

.csv

.json, APIs

.RData

.dta, .do

html table

.shp, .dbf

.tif

...

Data formats

 

Developing a story

New indicator

New data, new data update

New report

Emerging trend

Choosing a topic

Bullet points

or better: slide with sketch/draft visualizations

 

Make an outline

and iterate

 

Review story outline

Publish on preview site

Visualization review

It is a process: show example

Develop visualizations

 

Takeaways

Expensive, but there is a ROI

Body text

Make visualizations first class

Body text

Meet in the middle with experts

Body text

Measuring progress? Check our methodology

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Takeaways

Invest in your tech stack

Make it reproducible, mainstream it

Takeaways

BEHIND THE SCENES

 

Visualization process

BEHIND THE SCENES

 

How I use AI

TL;DR: very cautiously

Chatgpt

 

Create simple utility functions: data conversion, ...

 

Explain code snippets written by others

 

Explain how to use unfamiliar libraries and functions

 

Detect syntax issues

 

Gives Python and Svelte 4 output by default

 

Github Copilot

 

When AI needs to see my code

 

Always in "Ask" mode, never in "Agent"

 

Very easy to leak secrets

 

Advice on implementation strategies

 

Plan new complex features

mAI

 

When I need to navigate the World Bank bureaucracy

TL;DR:
For boring stuff
To learn new stuff
To plan and decide on big stuff