Literacy Nova Scotia Dashboard Project

Poppy Riddle

Hi there!

  • Introductions to myself and this project

  • Dashboards: exploratory vs explanatory

  • Some examples to consider

  • What data do we have?

  • What can we do with it?

  • How will we do this?

  • Advice, questions, concerns?

Introductions

Poppy Riddle

PhD student of Information Science, Dalhousie University

Prior career in design, Masters in Library and Information Science

Mitacs funded project

Builds off earlier work with Dalhousie researchers

Goal is to create a dashboard/hub for resources or data

Jan - Dec 2025

Dashboards

Exploratory

This are used to explore data sets or resources available. They usually include some way of visualizing to aid searching and making sense of the data.

Exploratory example from Statistics Canada

Exploratory example from Statistics Canada

Canadian Sustainable Development Goals Data Hub

Canadian Sustainable Development Goals Data Hub

Nova Scotia Wellbeing Map Survey

Nova Scotia Wellbeing Map Survey

Nova Scotia Community Learning Organizations Map

Nova Scotia Community Learning Organizations Map

This one starts to blur between exploratory and explanatory

Nova Scotia Forestry Council Dashboard

Nova Scotia Forestry Council Dashboard

Finally, a list seen many different ways…

UN List of Intangible Cultural Heritage

UN Intangible Cultural Heritage

UN Intangible Cultural Heritage

Explanatory

These use data and visualizations to communicate information usually in a narrative. May also include links to online resources, etc.

StoryMaps from Esri - Library Deserts in the US

StoryMaps from Esri - Library Deserts in the US

Data Story from David McCandless on plastics

Data Story from David McCandless on plastics

New York Times data story on college

New York Times data story on college

What data do we have?

On Literacy NS Resource Hub

  • Publications, articles, guides, reports
  • Presentations, slideshows, PDFs
  • Videos, audio

Scoping review

  • 187 peer-reviewed articles and reports
  • bibliographic metadata
  • article full-text

What can we do with it?

Connections and relationships

  • topics
  • authors
  • organizations/institutions
  • funding agencies
  • geographic
  • language

How will we do this?

There is no template - we should support multiple ways of finding resources

Asking questions

Listening

Trying things out, adapting, trying again

Participatory approach

  • Involvement of community members
  • Defining needs and goals to satisfy needs
  • Evaluation
  • Iterative process


Questions

What’s a pain right now?
What are you always searching for?
What do you spend the most time doing?


Listening

Feel free to contact me at pnriddle@dal.ca


How would you like to be involved?

email list
review team
evaluation

Thank you!

Poppy Riddle
pnriddle@dal.ca


https://poppy-nicolette.github.io/LNS/