About
The JRC Week on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards is an annual event during which local and international policy makers, academics, think tanks, and practitioners in a wide range of fields learn from best practices and showcase their capacity to inform policies through the use of indicator systems that summarise multidimensional concepts.
This year the JRC Week on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards convened online for the first time. Over the course of four half-days, participants learned about quality-controlled methods for developing and analysing indicator frameworks and the efforts that are needed in terms of data collection, analysis and visualisation of indices and scoreboards. The training offered lessons learnt from the JRC assessments of more than 100 well-known composite indicators and scoreboards.
The Community of Practice meeting focused on sharing knowledge and experiences on data storytelling. We held a behind-the-scenes talk with practitioners from some of the world’s most known indexes as well as award winning data journalists.
Agenda
Training day 1
14:30 Opening & Introduction
| Michaela Saisana, European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
14:55 Statistics Refresher I
| Elizabeth Casabianca, European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
15:20 Step 1: Conceptual Framework
| Ana Rita Neves, European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
15:45 Step 2: Selection of Indicators
| Francesco Panella, European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
16:10 Coffee Break
16:25 Step 3: Data treatment
| Marcos Dominguez-Torreiro, European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
17:00 Step 4: Normalisation
| Giulio Caperna and Pablo de Pedraza, European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
17:20 Q&A with the COIN team
17:40 End of day 1
Training day 2
14:30 Statistics Refresher II
| William Becker, European Commission, Joint Research Centre external expert |
14:45 Step 5: Weighting
| Matija Kovacic, European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
15:15 Step 6: Aggregation
| Giulio Caperna, European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
15:40 Step 7: Statistical Coherence
| Eleni Papadimitriou, European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
16:10 Coffee Break
16:25 Toolshop: the COIN tool
| Build and audit composite indicators using Excel |
| Giulio Caperna, European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
17:20 Q&A with the COIN team
17:40 End of day 2
Training day 3
14:30 Step 8: Quality control & Robustness
| William Becker, European Commission, Joint Research Centre external expert |
15:00 Step 9: Data sensemaking
| Valentina Montalto, European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
15:20 Step 10: Visualisation & Communication
| Carlos Moura and Valentina Alberti, European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
16:10 Coffee Break
16:25 Toolshop: the COINr package
| Build and audit composite indicators using R |
| William Becker, European Commission, Joint Research Centre external expert |
17:20 Q&A with the COIN team
17:40 End of training
Community of Practice meeting: From data to stories
14:30 Opening
| Michaela Saisana |
14:40 The Composite Indicators & Scoreboards Explorer Launch
| Michaela Saisana, Carlos Moura, Ana Rita Neves |
15:00 Roundtable: How to make compelling stories with your indexes?
| As data becomes the challenge of our time, indexes have the ability to turn complex issues into digestible narratives. How do you find your key messages in the numbers? How do you make it to the media and to policymakers? In this session, we hold a behind-the-scenes talk with practitioners from some of the world’s most exciting indexes on combining data, visuals and narratives. |
| Moderation: Ana Rita Neves |
| Simon Anholt, Good Country Index Saamah Abdallah, Happy Planet Index Albert Motivans, SDG Gender Index Michael Green, Social Progress Index |
16:10 Coffee Break
16:20 Special Session: Data stories
| Data is everywhere but the ability to make sense of data remains a challenge which only a few can master. In this session, we invite data journalists and data visualization experts to share with us how they develop compelling stories with data. In a conversation with them, we ask about their favourite data stories as well as common mistakes to avoid. |
| Moderation: Valentina Alberti |
| Divyanshi Wadhwa, Junior Data Scientist, SDG Atlas 2020, World Bank John Burn-Murdoch, Data Journalist, Financial Times UK Marie Segger, Data Journalist, The Economist Pamela Duncan, Data Journalist, The Guardian |
17:40 End of the Community of Practice meeting
Meet the team
Michaela Saisana |
Marcos Domínguez-Torreiro |
Ana Rita Neves |
Carlos Moura |
Eleni Papadimitriou |
Elizabeth Casabianca |
Francesco Panella |
Giulio Caperna |
Matija Kovacic |
Pablo de Pedraza |
Valentina Montalto |
Valentina Alberti |
William Becker |
Invited speakers
Albert Motivans |
Divyanshi Wadhwa |
John Burn-Murdoch |
Marie Segger |
Michael Green |
Pamela Duncan |
Saamah Abdallah |
Simon Anholt |
Downloads
Training Day 1
Opening and Introduction, Michaela Saisana
Statistics Refresher I, Elizabeth Casabianca
Step 1. Conceptual Framework, Ana Rita Neves
Step 2. Selection of Indicators, Francesco Panella
Step 3. Data Treatment, Marcos Dominguez-Torreiro
Step 4. Normalisation, Giulio Caperna & Pablo de Pedraza
Training Day 2
Statistics Refresher II, William Becker
Step 5. Weighting, Matija Kovacic
Step 6. Aggregation, Giulio Caperna
Step 7. Statistical Coherence, Eleni Papadimitriou
Toolshop: The COIN Excel Tool, Giulio Caperna
Training Day 3
Step 8. Quality control & Robustness, William Becker
Step 9. Data sensemaking, Valentina Montalto
Step 10. Visualisation, Carlos Moura
Step 10. Communication, Valentina Alberti
Toolshop: the COINr package, William Becker
Community of Practice
Community of Practice Highlights: From data to stories
Opening, Michaela Saisana
Happy Planet Index, Saamah Abdallah
SDG Gender Index, Albert Motivans
SDG Atlas 2020, Divyanshi Wadhwa, World Bank
Telling stories with data, Marie Segger, The Economist
Building engaging stories with data, Pamela Duncan, The Guardian
Videos
Collegamento 30 November | Training
Collegamento 1 December | Training
Collegamento 2 December | Training
Collegamento 3 December | Community of Practice
More editions
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| Originally Published | Last Updated | 09 Mar 2020 | 01 Jul 2025 |
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