DescriptionTeam name: MapMates
Team members: Franziska Hoerbst, Joshua Oliver Waites and Aoife Hughes
Host: John Innes Center, Norwich, UK
Challenge: Show me the world!
Overcoming challenges humanity faces in this century requires a well-informed and active public. While we face a growing abundance of global data sets, it is important to think about how to more easily communicate the already available data and evidence and make it accessible to the wide public.
MapMate is a standalone tool that allows you to plot global data on an interactive globe plot to present and compare datasets, explore trends, and satisfy the thirst for knowledge of curious minds. MapMate offers data visualisation as a way to increase the visibility of existing global data sets and promote the use of scientific evidence. Based on Open Access and Open Source, the solution does not require any educational background in data science or visualisation, being widely accessible for people with different backgrounds.
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