DataViva is an

information visualization Data and information visualization (data viz/vis or info viz/vis) is the practice of designing and creating Graphics, graphic or visual Representation (arts), representations of a large amount of complex quantitative and qualitative data and i ...

engine created by the Strategic Priorities Office of the government of

Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil, being the fourth largest state by area and the second largest in number of inhabitants with a population of 20,539,989 according to the 2022 Brazilian census, 2022 census. Located in ...

. DataViva makes official data about exports, industries, locations and occupations available for the entirety of

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

through eight apps and more than 100 million possible visualizations. The first set of datum – also available at ALICEWEB – is provided by MDIC (Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade) / SECEX (Secretariat of Foreign Trade), an official institution of the

Government of Brazil The Federal Government of Brazil (''Governo Federal'') is the national government of the Federative Republic of Brazil, a republic in South America divided into 26 states and a federal district. The Brazilian federal government is divided into th ...

and shows

foreign trade International trade is the exchange of Capital (economics), capital, goods, and Service (economics), services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services. (See: World economy.) In most countr ...

statistics for all exporting municipalities in the country. The other database, provided by Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego (MTE – Ministry of Labor and Employment), shows information about all the industries and occupations in

(RAIS – Annual Social Information Report).PESSOA, Rafael Marques; FREITAS, Elton Eduardo; BORGES, Thiago Bernard
Dataviva: Plataforma de Visualização de Dados Públicos Socioeconômicos Brasileiros
Brasília: IX Congresso CONSAD de Gestão Pública, 2016. The platform consists of eight core applications, each of which allows different ways of visualizing the data available. Some applications are descriptive, that is, showing data aggregated at various levels in a simple and comparative way, such as

Treemapping In information visualization and computing, treemapping is a method for displaying hierarchical data using nested figures, usually rectangles. Treemaps display hierarchical ( tree-structured) data as a set of nested rectangles. Each branch of ...

. Others are prescriptive, using calculations that allow an analytic visualization of the data, based on theories such as the Product Space. All the applications are generated using D3plus, an open source

JavaScript JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. Ninety-nine percent of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior. Web browsers have ...

library built on top of

D3.js D3.js (also known as D3, short for Data-Driven Documents) is a JavaScript library for producing dynamic, interactive data visualizations in web browsers. It makes use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), HTML5, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) stan ...

by Alexander Simoes and Dave Landry. Inspired by

The Observatory of Economic Complexity The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is an online data visualization and distribution platform for international trade data designed and owned bDatawheel Through interactive visualizations, the OEC aims to make global trade data accessib ...

, DataViva is an

open data Open data are data that are openly accessible, exploitable, editable and shareable by anyone for any purpose. Open data are generally licensed under an open license. The goals of the open data movement are similar to those of other "open(-so ...

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

, and free to use tool. It was developed in a partnership wit
Datawheel
co-founded by

MIT Media Lab The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, School of Architecture. Its research does not restrict to fi ...

Professor César Hidalgo, and is maintained by the Government of

References

;Press coverage
MIT Media Lab Makes Government Data Digestible for the Average PersonDataViva: a Big Data Engine for the Brazilian EconomyNew MIT Media Lab Tool Lets Anyone Visualize Unwieldy Government DataBrazilian states open up their data to combat corruptionBig Data in Minas Gerais: Creating an Engine for the Brazilian EconomyA Brazilian State Takes Open Data To Another LevelBrazilian state Open data visualization tool – DataViva

External links

* *{{github, alexandersimoes/dataviva
DataViva DocumentationThe Necessity For Open DataD3plus (Visualization Library Powering DataViva)
Complexity economics Government services portals Official statistics Government of Brazil Computer graphics Infographics Data and information visualization software Open data Free software programmed in Python Social information processing Software using the MIT license