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Visualize This!可視化！

Visualization can be a powerful tool, not only for education but also for exploring information and generating new ideas.可視化可以是一個功能強大的工具，不僅為教育，而且為探索信息，並產生新的想法。 Hans Rosling from the impressive漢斯rosling從令人印象深刻 Gapminder gapminder project gives an excellent presentation exposing how powerful visualization tools combined with public domain data could be important drivers of social change.項目給出了一個出色地介紹了揭露多麼強大的可視化工具，再加上公共領域的數據可以重要司機的社會變革。

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.障礙之一，以這種做法，很明顯，就是大部分的有用的數據，數據是由我們的稅制美元，是關起來，尤其是格式或因特殊協議。 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?我想那些參與認為一般人口中，並不希望獲得的原始數據，無論如何，什麼地球上我們可以源於它呢？ Leave it to Statscan or other government organizations to ask the right questions for the good of society.離開它統計局或其他政府機構提出正確的問題，為良好的社會。 Their methodology is best anyhow.他們的方法是最好的，無論如何。

If this attitude frustrates you, I highly recommend you watch the following 20 minute presentation.如果這樣的態度，挫敗你，我強烈建議您觀賞下列20分鐘的演講。 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:您是否設法改善貴公司的運作，運行一個非營利組織，或設置政府的政策，我想很多普通百姓聽得懂可受益於這樣一個可視化工具，讓他們很容易造成問題的數據集和形成新假說：

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.這種工具和方法，可能會導致建立一個更具參與性的形式治理，公民與裝備的能力，提供反饋，基於證據，轉化為政策的決策過程。

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.而我就一個包，此外我們想像的文書，例如政策，以蒐集資料，對他們的表現後特設，創造一個反饋週期，使我們監測，衡量和調整。 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.當一個新的政府是投贊成票，然後他們能夠作出明智的決定，關於哪些程序運作良好，並要取消，而不是削減的基礎上黨派政治。

Now that would be transparency of governance.現在，這將是治理的透明度。