Kate Chapmant: @wonderchooke: kate@geocommons.com

Enabling Collaborative Analytics for Faster Answers in a Crisis

Response Data Sources

• Traditional Responders• Volunteer Technical Communities• Affected Populations• Diaspora• Others…

Data Deluge

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Traditional Analytics

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Analytics Communities DevelopingMap Courtesy of Jim Malone

My analysis although very incomplete indicates that high hazard exists for many, many camps with impact to 10's of thousands of survivors in the event of a storm surge associated with a tropical storm or tsunami,

I am very interested in having my work get into the right hands so need on the ground contacts with Haitian leadership and Haitian governmental agencies.

Jim Malone via CrisisMappers Google Group (3/2/2010)

Talbot Brooks – Delta State University 3/2/2010

http://biosurveillance.typepad.com/

How to Foster Further Analytics?

Make Analytics Easy(Everyone likes pictures)

Make Terms Easy(But allow the deep dive)

Make Collaboration Easy

Make Results Traceable

Make Results Extendable

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Help Spark the Community

Recognize Good Results

Help Make Results Better

Let’s See it in Action!!!

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THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!

Really Chicken Little?

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We Better Tell the King!

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THE SKY IS FALLING!!!

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Hey guys!

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How it could have gone…

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THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!

Why not use a different geography?

Why not standardize your data?

Is it falling close to anywhere important?

Checkout this model I built

What’s wrong guys?

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Nothing, Sunny Day Here!

Moral/Conclusion?

Key Conditions for Collaborative Analysis

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

Crowdsourcing Analytics(the sky is not falling)

Kate Chapmant: @wonderchooke: kate@geocommons.com

Thanks!