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Applications and tools

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Example open data-based applications in South Africa
​Wazimap visualises Stats SA Census 2011 and Community Survey 2016 data
​South African Cities Open Data Almanac (SCODA) is launching a new version soon
​BioEnergy Atlas decision-support tool uses infrastructure and natural resource data
​Durban EDGE Open Data Portal runs regular data stories on economic topics
​Medicine Pricing Registry draws on medicine pricing data from the NDoH
​Planning for Informality uses planning and performance data from cities
​Municipal Money and Vulekamali visualises fiscal data from Treasury
Transport apps like GoMetro have drawn on open data from cities
​Open Gazettes and Laws.Africa make it easier to view legal and legislative data
​SAAQIS air quality index and dashboard draw on air quality data
​Regional eXplorer and EasyData economic intelligence tools draw on Stats SA data
Visualisation and storytelling
For visualisation, there are many to try out like Flourish and Datawrapper. If you're more technical and using Python or R, have a look at this summary of libraries.
Have a look at these storytelling tools from Knightlab including Timeline, StoryMap, Soundcite and Juxtapose.
For creating infographics, there are tools like Infogram. 
For mapping relationships or networks as a story try GraphCommons, see this example of three musicians in a recording ecosystem. Kumu is also popular for network visualisation.
Extracting and cleaning data
If you want to get data tables out of PDFs you can try Tabula, pd3f, or Excalibur/ Camelot.
​OpenRefine is good for cleaning data.
If you want to extract and analyse text in articles or books (e.g. to identify people and places) there are lots of tools to try like TextRazor, Intellexer and Google's Natural Language.
Mapping spatial data
For mapping, something like Kepler is easier to use. For more detail on other tools and working with spatial data see this page.

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