Call for proposals: Interactive data visualisation about the UK cost of living crisis
The Economics Observatory is calling for proposals to deliver an interactive data visualisation to be hosted at economicsobservatory.com and to be showcased at economics events in across the UK, such as yearly Bristol Ideas – Festival of Economics, with the next edition planned for 14 -17 November 2022.
Description
The topic of the visualisation is the current cost of living crisis across the UK. While there are several angles from which this topic could be presented from (examples of which you will find already on our website), this visualisation will be aimed at the individual. Surely, the impact of the crisis varies with income band, family size and geography, just to name a few factors. Therefore, it is intended that the exploration experience for our users will be context-dependent. It is up to the designer of the visualisation on choosing a method on how to gather or mine the contextual information of the current user – perhaps using a mixture of pre-prepared regional visualisations and a short interactive form for gathering more specific data pertaining to each individual.
Data
Some examples we encourage for the data visualisation designer to look at are the New York Times’ or the BBC’s inflation calculator or ONS scrollytelling maps, as well as their guidance on personalising visualisations of national scale.
The sources will be decided together with the Observatory team, and are likely to include a mixture of publicly accessible datasets in the ONS and the Economics Observatory data repositories, augmented by specific datasets curated by our researchers on product-specific longitudinal price and inflation data.
Terms
The visualisation guidelines that we follow are that of the ONS and the design language of the Economics Observatory. The final product must be easy to explore on a mobile device, a computer screen and fit for projecting on a large screen. Ideally, it should be also easily embeddable into a self-hosted WordPress site using exising WordPress plugins, or at least through an iframe.
The visualisation needs to be delivered by the 7th of November, with a first draft accessible to the team by the 24th of October. One weekly consultation with the Economics Observatory team will be scheduled, with guidance and assistance allocated as necessary.
We are looking for qualified individuals with a history delivering complex data visualisation projects. We can offer two hours/week of support from a junior data scientist. If you are interested, please send your introductory idea and cost estimate along with a CV and a link to your portfolio to our Data Editor, Denes Csala at denes.csala@bristol.ac.uk, by the 17th of October.
