2022
Jan
- Centre site - strattic migration (Jan 26)
- Overview of Data Grid - by country / by sub-category view released
- State of Data report to be released (Jan 31)
- DR guide to be printed A4/to be sent to partners/OCHA offices (Procurement happening) - Mug, Booklet, Business card
- Data Deep Dive event with Meta
- QA metrics work with Kasia (ongoing)
2020
Sept
- responsive org page/location page went live (September 14)
- Ongoing resource format consultation work
- maintainer's email found via activity stream API - patched (September 14))
- HDX case study doc going live (September 15)
- Ongoing work with Oblo on data responsibility - HDX/centre site
- Nepal flag updated on data grid
- Onboarding email content update - done
Aug
- Search improvement
- responsive org detail page / location detail page in progress
- COD versioning - in progress
- gender disaggregated data to be added for covid viz - starting with 23 countries
July
- Tipsheet published (July 10)
- Guidance note 5 to be publishedpublished (July 14 https://centre.humdata.org/guidance-note-data-impact-assessments/)
- access severity layer added to COVID viz
- Covid viz officially released (July 30)
- learning byte released on centre site / promoted
June
- AWS migration
- Issues started happening after deploy(mixpanel timeout - cache being erased by other properties on aws) - due to the new AWS setup - seeking solutions
- mobile-friendly crisis, org list, location list page released.
- Privacy setting combined with public/private/HDX connect datasets - now user can toggle between the 3
- COVID viz quiet release (June 26)
- Added option for dataset page to display link to the custom URL (designed for COVID viz - "Package Link" available from sysadmin setting)
- User survey conducted for people who downloaded resource
May
- Learning Byte released
- COVID viz project launched
- COVID viz map transtion to Mapbox from d3
- Oblo project launched with data responsibility
- Testingg Google DLP work for QA work/dataset screening
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- Guidance note #3 & #4 released - Feb 3
- Phase 1 of ECHO project deployed - file store moved to AWS and being tested
- design of Data Grid Overview page in progress (to be added under quicklinks)
- Data Grid available for 21 locations (7 additional locations added - )
- Investigating how to track downloads of pdf like guidance notes files uploaded to Centre
- Code freeze - upgraded to latest Angular - not complete
- Improve nosetests and test coverage
- Investigating better PII algorithm - maybe Google DLP
- HXL Proxy handover - first issue and new release
- FAQ updates
- OICT security audit in progress - to be submitted end of March
Jan
- 14 Data grid available for Palestine, Sudan, Somalia, Philippines, Yemen, Colombia, Afghanistan, Chad, Venezuela, Bangladesh, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, Mozambique - process documentation) - uganda and indonesia removed
- Data grid report released on 1/23 https://centre.humdata.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/StateofData2020.pdf
- Ongoing work for Echo dashboard available on feature- for sysadmins to test
- Responsive search result/data list page - design handed over to dev.
- Quarterly HDX stats sent to org admins - 1/23
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- Freshness UI(dashboard) to launch
- Echo workflow + design to be done
- Tag suggestion(for upload flow) to launch
- Centre site - WP user cleanup. 3 users to remain as admin.
- 15th country to be added to data grid (Palestine, Uganda, Sudan, Indonesia, Somalia, Philippines, Yemen, Colombia, Afghanistan, Chad, Venezuela, Bangladesh, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar - process documentation)
- Education in emergencies page to launch + quick link to be added
- AIDR viz being developed
- quarterly hdx stats sent to org admins (Oct 17)
Sept
- Freshness UI(dashboard) on feature- for review
- Notification(HDX connect dataset requests + new membership requests) went live
- ECHO design work started
- Tag cleanup went live (down to 360+ controlled tags from 4600+ free tags)
- (internal) sysadmin cleanup work → 30 sysadmins planned to be 10.
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- Tabular view on dataset page (mixpanel set for counting clicks on tabs)
- FAQ March updates with new walk-through slides for HDX Connect + updated Data Check slides
- removed map explorer (turned those datasets to private + removed showcase/gallery item + from suggested search + removed dataviz links from centre dataviz page)
- Call to actions on dataset pages minimized (ie. edit/delete/etc expands on hover - we were getting tight in the space)
- HDX Connect request email (that is sent to the maintainer) now displays requester’s email domain (for sneak preview)
- improved usability of data check on dataset pages
- Improved compatibility for old quick charts that failed to load for some orgs (ie. acled, unhcr)
Feb
- - Data Check is available on HDX for resources that has HXL tags (https://data.humdata.org/search?ext_hxl=1&q=&ext_page_size=25)
- New HXL Proxy release in prod: https://twitter.com/david_megginson/status/1091028092963954688 (The major new feature is the ability to add calculated values to rows (something members of the data team and outside users have requested several times): https://github.com/HXLStandard/hxl-proxy/wiki/Row-formulas)
- deployed and enabled the features required for highly available HDX ckan stack. Through HA we are able to run multiple, distinct full ckan stacks on the same server or on different servers.
- Data Completeness(Data Grid) is available for Uganda, Sudan, Indonesia, Somalia, Philippines, Yemen, Colombia, Afghanistan, Chad, Venezuela (10 locations)
Google sitemap/HA work
Jan
- HDX homepage updated with higher visibility for HDX connect (and OCHA header/footer) + HDX Tools homepage updated
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