[liberationtech] Controlling Human Rights Research

[Enrique Piraces]

I agree that Benetech/HRDAG is a good resource. 

For vis alternatives:

I have also looked at http://www.panopticon.com/ for vis software, not opensource. 
If you are thinking about large amounts of data, some ppl at nytimes have presented a few times on quite interesting ways to use processing (open source) for data viz.
Flare (http://flare.prefuse.org/) and protovis (http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/) may be an alternative for web based tools.

I'm also working on a evidence management sys, and would love to learn more about how is that you are approaching that. I have looked at Martus, OpenEvSys, and a few others

Best,
@epiraces

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From: liberationtech-bounces at lists.stanford.edu on behalf of Seth David Schoen
Sent: Sat 2/5/2011 5:23 PM
To: cantona7 at hushmail.com
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Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Controlling Human Rights Research
 
cantona7 at hushmail.com writes:

> On the same note, we are collecting very significant amounts of 
> information at the moment on incidents, victims and perpetrators. 
> We are looking for very advanced ways of managing, visualising, 
> data-mining and pattern analysis. Though we are a human rights 
> organisation, weI have looked at how policing and intelligence 
> organisations manage such information and that generally means 
> packages such as Sentinal Visualiser and i2 Analysts notebook. 
> While this offer many of the things that we owuld like to do, they 
> are eye-wateringly expensive! Does anyone know of similar options 
> which are cheaper and/or free/open source?

You should talk to the Human Rights Data Analysis Group at Benetech,
which develops and uses free software to do this kind of work.

http://www.hrdag.org/

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Seth Schoen
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