Presentation by Tim Waters from GeoIQ at AGI North Conference 2011 "Liberating Location"

1. Community Analytics
on the GeoWeb
Tim Waters - GeoIQ
tim.waters@geoiq.com

2. Data Deluge

3. Big
Realtime
Linked
Bi-directional
Geolocated
Tools to make it – loads, easy
Tools to understand - few, tricky
Why?
So we can make more informed and better descisions

4. Traditional GIS Hierarchies
(GIS & Communities)
Spatial Data Infrastructures
For GIS Professionals
Public Participation GIS
Professionals + Commoners
Volunteered Geographic Information
Just the Commoners

5. Haiti
Changed disaster relief forever.
Changed the way we work together

6. Aims for community
collborative analytics

7. Data
Report
Data
Report
Data Analyst
Decision Maker
Report
Traditional Analytic Process

8. How to Foster Analytics?

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

10. Make Analytics Easy
(Everyone likes pictures)

11. FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking for Women's Soccer/Football, World by Country, September 25 2009
http://geocommons.com/overlays/19155
Make Analytics Powerful

12. Shareable Custom Anaysis Models

13. Make Terms Easy
(But allow the deep dive)

14. Copy
Clone
Edit
Publish
Make Collaboration Easy

15. Make Results Traceable

16. Make Results Extendable
Data
Information
Data
Information Analyst
Data Analyst
Information

17. Data
Report
Data
Report
Data Analyst
Decision Maker
Report
Before…

18. Crowdsourced
Analytics
To set up environments to enable people
to collaborate to analyse
information

19. Challenges
“Big Data”
What do you do when you
have so much data it does
not fit onto your database?

20. Challenges
“Real time”
What do you do when the
data that your analysis is
based on changes?

21. Temporal
animation
Pivot
across
variables
Live
filtering
Sentiment over time On click geographic
details

22. Heavy Negative Sentiment for “Black Swan”

23. Largely Positive Sentiment for “Jeff Bridges”

24. Community Analytics
on the GeoWeb

25. Key Conditions for
Collaborative Analysis
Make it:
•
Easy
•
Traceable
•
Sharable
•
Recognize
•
Improvable

26. Community Analytics
Challenge – big realtime
Create tools & platforms.
As easy to analyse as it is to create.
Community engagement &
cross collaboration