Collaborative Analysis with GeoCommons

Collaborative Analysis with GeoCommons

Andrew Turner @ajturner

Presented at the Harvard Center for Geospatial Analysis on May 6, 2011

Access

Visualize

Analyze

we focus on three overall capabilitiesData: networked, unbounded, standards-based, community driven, open data.Visualization: We need ways to get through this data. What do I have? What is the shape and idea of it? How is it changing? What can I do with it?Analysis: In the end, I want to make decisions. To do that, I need to ask questions. I need tools to help me easily ask questions and find answers without having to worry about the “how” of the question asking. Just let me explore.

Conversations

When I think that I have a decision, I need to seek consensus. I need to convince others I’m right, or find out if they have a better idea.

Cross-DomainShare KnowledgeMake Smarter Decisions... Collaboratively

Organizations

Research

MediaDevelopers

Enterprise

Citizens

Across each of these organizations and communities they are able to quickly and effectively leverage public data with their enterprise data in order to reach smarter decisions more quickly. They are made more effective by actively collaborating with organizations in other industries and focus.

http://geocommons.com

Start now by joining our GeoCommons community of more than 25k GeoIQ users. You can readily find, visualize, and very soon analyze the public repository of 500,000+ geographic attributes, billions of features.55k+ unique datasets2.5m+ downloads8.5m+ maps served

Or talk to me about how to use GeoIQ within your enterprise in order to leverage GeoIQ Connect - integrating directly into your databases such as Oracle or even NoSQL stores.

http://geocommons.com

8.5m+ maps served

55k+ unique datasetsbillions of features.2.5m+ downloads

500,000+ geographic attributes

Start now by joining our GeoCommons community of more than 25k GeoIQ users. You can readily find, visualize, and very soon analyze the public repository of 500,000+ geographic attributes, billions of features.55k+ unique datasets2.5m+ downloads8.5m+ maps served

Or talk to me about how to use GeoIQ within your enterprise in order to leverage GeoIQ Connect - integrating directly into your databases such as Oracle or even NoSQL stores.

Integrated with the Web

Web Services

Web APIOGC Services

Databases

SpreadsheetShapefilesKML, etc.

Data & Maps

Analysis

Federated...

Excel ArcGIS Mobile

Collaborate wherever you are

new upcoming features. Polymaps support. >100,000 points, png and pdf output.

Collaborate wherever you are

new upcoming features. Polymaps support. >100,000 points, png and pdf output.

Collaborate wherever you are

new upcoming features. Polymaps support. >100,000 points, png and pdf output.

http://developer.geoiq.com

Research

WWF and UNEP are “expert-sourcing” climate data and opening up their models to the world to “crowd-source” personal impact, relevance and feedback

http://maps.worldbank.org

Collaborating at the Edge Social Data Cultivation#beer4data

credit: Dave Warner

flickr: oddboy

“The Taj”, Jalalabad, Afghanistn

Afghanistan Election Dashboard

Citizen reported incidents

Predicted areas for violence

Haiti

OpenStreetMapHaiti - January 12, 2010

Haiti - January 14, 2010

Haiti - January 26, 2010

Ushahidi::Haiti http://haiti.ushahidi.com

Needs & Damage Assessment

http://news.geocommons.com

Medical Needs

Social Media Indicatorshttp://geocommons.com/maps/51058

Social Media Indicatorshttp://geocommons.com/maps/51058

Learn more Tomorrow!or try it now at geocommons.com

Andrew Turner @ajturner

andrew@geoiq.com