Community Analytics on the GeoWeb

Community Analytics on the GeoWeb

Tim Waters - GeoIQ

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Data Deluge

Why?So we can make more informed and better descisions

BigRealtimeLinkedBi-directionalGeolocated

Tools to make it – loads, easyTools to understand - few, tricky

Spatial Data InfrastructuresFor GIS Professionals

Public Participation GISProfessionals + Commoners

Volunteered Geographic InformationJust the Commoners

Traditional GIS Hierarchies(GIS & Communities)

HaitiChanged disaster relief forever.Changed the way we work together

Aims for community collborative analytics

Traditional Analytic Process

Analyst

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Decision Maker

How to Foster Analytics?

A web-based data visualization and collaboration platform with a global community

Make Analytics Easy(Everyone likes pictures)

Make Analytics Powerful

FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking for Women's Soccer/Football, World by Country, September 25 2009

http://geocommons.com/overlays/19155

Shareable Custom Anaysis Models

Make Terms Easy(But allow the deep dive)

Make Collaboration Easy

CopyCloneEditPublish

Make Results Traceable

Make Results Extendable

Analyst

Data

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Information

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Before…

Analyst

Data

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Decision Maker

Crowdsourced Analytics

To set up environments to enable people to collaborate to analyse

information

What do you do when you have so much data it does not fit onto your database?

Challenges

“Big Data”

What do you do when the data that your analysis is based on changes?

Challenges

“Real time”

Temporal animation

On click geographic details

Live filtering

Sentiment over time

Pivot across

variables

Heavy Negative Sentiment for “Black Swan”

Largely Positive Sentiment for “Jeff Bridges”

Community Analytics on the GeoWeb

Key Conditions for Collaborative Analysis

Make it:• Easy• Traceable• Sharable• Recognize• Improvable

Community Analytics

Challenge – big realtime

Create tools & platforms.As easy to analyse as it is to create.

Community engagement & cross collaboration