From: kalev leetaru <kalev.leeta...@gmail.com> Hi everyone, thought many of you might find of interest this pilot "protest dashboard" John Beieler at PSU created using our GDELT event archive ( http://gdelt.utdallas.edu/) of protest, violence, and force posture change events in Egypt over the past week derived from global English-language news media coverage:
http://gdeltblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/week-of-egyptian-protests/ This is a very early pilot prototype to explore how we might present the data in a way that is useful for humanitarian responders and the general public to better understand these kinds of fast-moving fluid situations that cover a wide geographic area. You can interactively zoom into the map and click on a point to see a list of URLs containing protest events from that location. The pink dots represent areas with protests, while the red semi-transparent circles indicate areas with violence. You can turn the two layers on/off using the drop-down in the upper-right of the map. John also created two previous maps of global protests, one for all protests in 2013 in GDELT thus far: http://gdeltblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/mapping-protest-data/ and an animated one that shows all global protests 1979-present in GDELT (this one reflects the exponential rise in available global news media coverage over the last quarter-century): http://gdeltblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/animated-protest-mapping/ http://johnbeieler.org/protest_mapping The geographers on the list may find these next two studies of interest, looking at how the resolution of the GNS and GNIS gazeteers affects the ability to precisely place events and how much that varies by locality: http://gdeltblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/93/ And this comparison of GDELT and the NASA Night Lights imagery and the reach of global English-language mainstream media: http://gdeltblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/visualizing-global-gdelt-coverage/ We'd love any feedback you might have on the pilot Egyptian protests dashboard as we start exploring how we might create some visualizations and interfaces to allow the data to be more easily utilized by the humanitarian community, so email me directly at kalev.leeta...@gmail.com with any suggestions/comments/thoughts/etc. Also, if anyone on this list has suggestions for other large global collections of placenames (ie global gazeteers) that include centroid coordinates for each location, that are more extensive than GNS, GNIS, and geonames.org, we'd love to hear about them! Especially gazeteers that include more local names and regional name variants. ~Kalev Georgetown University
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