Web sites that provide statistical data to produce maps, or combinations of other data, are more and more. Two in particular are innovative: it is Flowing Data and Ushahidi.
Flowing Data is a site with various topics that seemingly have nothing to do with each other. But there is one common denominator: the graphics. The content is both serious and lighter, and can go from the representation in different combinations on unemployment in the United States to track the movements of the mouse on your computer. Even
sections are varied and aimed at everyone of users, both professionals and ordinary people who are looking for curiosity. However, it is clearly a service that is aimed at those graphics makes news.
Section Date underload, for example, offers ready-made graphics data with more or less curious and strange, as we are in the lower part, a series of tutorial and applications , let alone computer graphics and data sharing , which allow you to learn much more about these topics.
Also some services are offered to help out further to handle the graphics of the data. IstantAtlas , in Italian at this address, is described as "an economical and powerful tool for visualization and presentation of data, even for those who have" no experience in publishing, displaying or mapping data. " The result recalls the
maps obtained through the GIS software, but visible only when you have installed Flash on your browser. The service, which basically is an application fee, is also be integrated into Access and Excel, making then easier to export data, and you can create from the available data also different types of charts and diagrams.
not paid, but open-source , instead Ushahidi, which in Swahili means 'Witness'. Swahili because the idea was conceived in Kenya during the inter-ethnic violence that resulted after the 2008 elections. At that time some Kenyan citizen-journalists have used this site to map the areas where the violence took place, with reports sent via web and mobile phones. The project also has developed with many volunteer contributors, and now it is extended to Africa, Europe and the United States. Various groups have used this new software to map incidents, such as in South Africa during the xenophobic violence in 2008. Several media have used the service, such as Al-Jazeera three times during the last war in Gaza, the elections in India and violence in Pakistan.
The goal is to create a platform that every individual or organization can use to find their own way of collect and display data and information.
tool to try.
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