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Visualize This!可视化！

Visualization can be a powerful tool, not only for education but also for exploring information and generating new ideas.可视化可以是一个功能强大的工具，不仅为教育，而且为探索信息，并产生新的想法。 Hans Rosling from the impressive汉斯rosling从令人印象深刻 Gapminder gapminder project gives an excellent presentation exposing how powerful visualization tools combined with public domain data could be important drivers of social change.项目给出了一个出色地介绍了揭露多么强大的可视化工具，再加上公共领域的数据可以重要司机的社会变革。

One of the barriers to this approach, apparently, is that much of the useful data, data which is produced by our tax dollars, is locked up in particular formats or due to special agreements.障碍之一，以这种做法，很明显，就是大部分的有用的数据，数据是由我们的税制美元，是关起来，尤其是格式或因特殊协议。 Or simply not made available.或根本不提供。 I suppose those involved think that the general population doesn’t want access to the raw data anyway, what on earth could we derive from it?我想那些参与认为一般人口中，并不希望获得的原始数据，无论如何，什么地球上我们可以源于它呢？ Leave it to Statscan or other government organizations to ask the right questions for the good of society.离开它统计局或其他政府机构提出正确的问题，为良好的社会。 Their methodology is best anyhow.他们的方法是最好的，无论如何。

If this attitude frustrates you, I highly recommend you watch the following 20 minute presentation.如果这样的态度，挫败你，我强烈建议您观赏下列20分钟的演讲。 Whether you’re trying to improve your company’s operation, run a non-profit organization, or set government policy, I think many ordinary folk could benefit from such a visualization tool allowing them to easily pose questions of data sets and form new hypotheses:您是否设法改善贵公司的运作，运行一个非营利组织，或设置政府的政策，我想很多普通百姓听得懂可受益于这样一个可视化工具，让他们很容易造成问题的数据集和形成新假说：

Such tools and approaches may lead towards a more participatory form of governance, equipping citizens with the ability to provide feedback, based on evidence, into policy making processes.这种工具和方法，可能会导致建立一个更具参与性的形式治理，公民与装备的能力，提供反馈，基于证据，转化为政策的决策过程。

While I’m on a roll, imagine we furthermore instrument such policies to collect data on their performance post-hoc, creating a feedback cycle allowing us to monitor, measure and adjust.而我就一个包，此外我们想象的文书，例如政策，以搜集资料，对他们的表现后特设，创造一个反馈周期，使我们监测，衡量和调整。 When a new government is voted in then they would be able to make informed decisions about which programs function well and which to cancel, instead of cutting based on partisan politics.当一个新的政府是投赞成票，然后他们能够作出明智的决定，关于哪些程序运作良好，并要取消，而不是削减的基础上党派政治。

Now that would be transparency of governance.现在，这将是治理的透明度。