A team of energy policy consultants and software developers met in San Francisco to brainstorm how data sets could be used to make the typical urban commute shorter and greener.
From electronic town hall meetings, challenges, digital brainstorms, open data initiatives, and transparency initiatives governments at all levels are reaching out to engage citizens in developing new ideas and solving problems.
This tool is commonly used within project management and ethnographic studies as it allows large numbers of ideas stemming from brainstorming and other qualitative data to be sorted into groups, based on their relationships, for review and analysis.
Here, a group of participants are brainstorming what kinds of data they could collect, using pencil and notecards, from artworks while walking around in a gallery in a span of 25 minutes.
First, we brainstormed the kinds of data that could be placed onto a museum card.
Mr. Goldberg has developed Opinion Space, a tool for online discussion and brainstorming that uses algorithms and data visualization to help gather meaningful ideas from a large number of participants.
Risk factors were determined by analyzing the epidemic data using the brainstorming method; the analytic hierarchy process was designed to weigh risk factors, and the integrated multicriteria analysis was used to evaluate the final result.
Data analysis and brainstorming sessions were used to develop causal loop diagrams (CLDs) depicting the causes of neonatal mortality, which were validated by local and international stakeholders.
This will help you brainstorm new ideas, get new data, and increase your probability of success.
Students could brainstorm in advance the type of data they would like to collect and in what form.
After the their logs are complete, students brainstorm ways to compile and analyze the data (and how to keep responses anonymous, if desired).
