HDX/Centre feature milestones

Owned by Yumi Endo
Last updated: Jan 26, 2022
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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

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 

Apr

Mar

  • Overview of Data Grid page released
  • Covid-19 Pandemic page released
  • OICT security audit submitted
  • QA officers started using the QA dashboard
  • Covid-19 viz for humanitarian locations released (Mar 26)

Feb

  • 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

2019

Dec

  • 'Administrative divisions' added as filter under "Featured"
  • file type/updated dataset date added to metadata (previously displayed on dataset page/data list page but wasn't displayed in metadata)
  • Google Analytics code added again to hxl site (12/6)
  • End of year HDX stats campaign to start on 12/16

Nov

  • Freshness UI(dashboard) launched for data maintainers - Filters, sorting, notification added 
  • Echo workflow/dashboard dev in progress 
  • Data grid report (targeted to donors) started 
  • Data grid layout changed from 4 columnsx2rows > 3 columnsx2rows
  • AIDR viz completed + presented 
  • Education in emergencies page launched 
  • Tag suggestion added to contribute/edit flow
  • (internal) sysadmin notification reached 0 (of all pending request for memberships/HDX connect)
  • Quickcharts - average function support in charts /  New options for timeseries: date format & Show all dates (max 13)
  • deployed OCHA's humanitarian icons - as part of ongoing effort for common design language across OCHA properties
  • Data grid – expanded by default

Oct

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. 

August

  • new HXL site launched
  • Tag assist - Excel plugin - v1 made 
  • (internal) signed up for Hotjar (paid account)
  • Freshness UI(dashboard/notification) dev started 
  • Tag cleanup - debugging related issues

July

  • Ongoing Freshness UI(dashboard/notification) discussion + design
  • ECHO project - Dan to take over
  • Ongoing Tag cleanup work
  • (internal) Ongoing sysadmin cleanup work/special permission for managing request data dashboard/homepage carousel//COD dashboard/Crisis+event dashboard

June

  • Ongoing Google lighthouse metric work - performance/accessibility score improved (aria tag implemented)
  • CKAN upgrade to 2.8 tested + planned for deploy
  • Responsive layout for dataset page on feature- 
  • Responsive design for search result/data list page being prepared (small internal survey done to determine priorities)
  • Call to actions on dataset pages to have a slight delay (ie. edit/delete/etc expands on hover - the hover was too abrupt)

May

  • API highway is available on test- for datasets with CSV/JSON for Yemen
  • FAQ update planned
  • HXL proxy handover being planned
  • Google lighthouse metrics work started(incl. responsive, fast-loading, accessibility, etc)
  • Showcase items without datasets removed (around 600)
  • Data Grid publicly announced + blog went out
  • Accessibility improvement discussion was held for HDX/Centre site

Apr

Mar

  • 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

Jan

- HDX homepage updated with higher visibility for HDX connect (and OCHA header/footer) + HDX Tools homepage updated


2018

Dec 

- Data Completeness(Data Grid) is available for Sudan(https://data.humdata.org/group/sdn), Indonesia(https://data.humdata.org/group/idn) and Philippines (https://data.humdata.org/group/phl)
- A year in review email sent to org admins + HDX traffic data added to HDX: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/hdx-usage-statistics
- HDX has added green leaf icons to datasets to indicate whether the dataset is being maintained
- Deployed OCHA's common header/footer on https://data.humdata.org/ & https://tools.humdata.org/


Oct

  • HDX got 8000 datasets

Sep

  • Dev team deployed a new version of CKAN (1.22.0) on https://data.humdata.org - supporting multiple vizualizations on dataset page, data freshness green leaf on /dataset or /search pages, FAQ updates