Ackbar Joolia - Traffic in endangered species: visualizing the CITES database

CITES Trade DatabaseConvention on International Trade for Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna over 11 million trade records...and increasing over 50 000 scientiﬁc names more than 700 000 trade records annually Ackbar Joolia - UNEP-WCMC

Wildlife trade: second most lucrative after drugs think elephant ivory leather products / fur agar-wood opportunity for raising awareness

huge amount of data...‘untaped wealth of resource’uniqueover 25k downloads per year plusdirect requests

What can be done with the data? lots of things trends intelligent searches interactive, instant, comparative visualisations generic/ﬂexible approach

How can the data be organised?geographically : country levelspecies level : all sharks -> blue sharksdifferent categorisation levels trade in hunting trophies all wild species

What have we got now?very basic search not a good interfaceﬂat results / downloadvery recently, launched the CITESDashboards

CITES Dashboards

Challengesworking with data as islots of dataaggregation possibilitiesneed to provide a ‘better’ servicerobust efﬁcient performant framework

potential areas of work

Search facilitysimple / advanced sets of query exporting/importing countries species terms / purpose / source‘intelligent’ ways of searchingﬂexible approach

Visualisationcertainly the most attractive partpotentially ‘endless’ possibilities hereany ideas from anyone?everyone loves nice ﬂowing summarisedinformationinstant view of trendsidentify emerging trends on an‘automated’ basis

Comparative ‘graphs’ trends top most something... drilling features maps to show trade patterns, or more... selective graphs change over time

Robust efﬁcient distributed architecturecurrent structure not a good platform/architecture to work offplatform that would work as efﬁcientlyin ‘real-time’dashboard built on a subsetany ideas? Is it a viable solution?Hadoop / HBase ?Bigtables ?

Integration / Interaction with other datasets / projects impact of climate change? in conjunction with RedList data? Poverty index?

Sensitivitywildlife trade is a business for certaincountriese.g. watch straps from Switzerland >100k/yearsole earning for certain families

SensitivityThere is conﬁdential informationNot to create tensions among countries,or ‘ﬁnger-pointing’Should be a tool / set of ideas to outlineuseful constructive information abouttradeneed to encourage parties to report

Other projects...we maintain the species database forCITES and EUworking very closely with SCITES toencourage electronic permittingmore and more countries adhering

‘Real-time’ v/s Real-time data electronic permitting huge step to get trade information as soon as issued EPIX project which aims at extracting data from countries power of Trade query tool with real- time data

What are my expectations?Hope the subject and unique dataset is ofinterestwe could make a big impact with efﬁcientvisualisation toolbut also, what about a distributedarchitecture? How to process huge data inefﬁcient/fast manner?Are there any other ideas for best utilisationof the data?

Thank youWe have brought a subset of theTrade data to work on for thoseinterestedA good prototype would very easilyﬁnd its way onto a proper product

Ackbar Joolia - Traffic in endangered species: visualizing the CITES database

by Javier de la Torre on Nov 06, 2011

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