Dear OKF Team, I'm Sébastien Heymann, co-leader of the Gephi project (https://gephi.org/), an open source tool to make sense with relational data. I'm contacting you because we are considering to apply for the next Knight News Challenge about data (http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/faqs). Our idea is to create the "Many Eyes" of networked data, for any kind of networks such as social networks, interlocking directorates, email, Web, etc...and we need your opinion on it.
This project will be a web platform to host, explore, and communicate networked data on the Web, mobile and newspapers. The goal is to speed up the work of journalists for the analysis and communication of networks. Users will be able to explore networks and edit data collaboratively like in: http://maps.e-diasporas.fr/index.php?focus=section§ion=5 Users will be also able to easily make embedded visualizations like the following ones: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9159131/Syria-Asma-and-Bashar-al-Assads-email-network.html http://ecologie.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/04/16/facenuke-la-cartographie-du-lobby-nucleaire-francais/ However we would like to know if this kind of tool fills some critical needs for the journalists, and how to improve the proposal. What do you think about the idea? I would be glad to discuss with you and your expectations. I guess we might connect the platform to the Data Hub and Open Spending to enable easy network analysis. Thank you very much for your time, Sébastien Heymann _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
