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Making sense of the "dots" and amplifying the key data points is the root of the Analysis team. They will work on the tips and planning built by the Uchaguzi Analytics, Research and Analysis Community Working Group.
It is very hard to estimate the number of messages we will receive. The Communication Commission of Kenya latest figures show mobile telephony penetration at 75.4 per cent in an industry with a total of 29.7 million subscribers. What this means is that nearly everyone between 15 - 65 years old (the most likely to own a mobile phone) are connected. Together with our partners Uchaguzi will be rolling out an extensive advertising campaign to let the public know about the deployment and how to send information. On election day a we may process 50,000 different pieces of information. In the days leading up to the general election perhaps 5000 - 10,000. However, these are guess.
Please see the Uchaguzi case study for some analytics on this. http://www.slideshare.net/Ushahidi/kenya-ushahidi-evaluation-uchaguzi
http://www.hivos.org/activity/ict-election-watch-uchaguzi-deployment-kenya-20122013
IEBC (electoral commission) has released more details. This has been complex to get. Mikel has provided us with Kenyan shapefiles. We are also working with the UMATI project (which will handle the category - "hate speech") http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2012/12/umati-online-media-monitoring-project-releases-november-2012-initial-results/
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Name of Tool | Description | Supported File Formats | Computer Platform Support | Link | Learning Curve | Notes |
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet application for organizing, analyzing, and visualizing data in worksheets. | .xls, .xlsx, .csv, .txt | Mac and Windows | low | Cost is around ~$120 for Microsoft Office for Mac (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook). | |
Tableau | Desktop application that lets you easily import your data and offers easy mechanisms for visualizing it. | .xls, .txt, databases (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.), Hadoop, etc. | Only Windows | low | The Tableau personal edition can be used for free, which allows data sources like .xls and .txt. However, the next step up, professional edition, costs up to $1999 per user. Finally, the Tableau Server edition allows anyone to publish her data on a server that can then be accessed on an Internet browser at a public URL. More info is found here:http://www.tableausoftware.com/products/desktop/specs | |
Matlab | Desktop application and framework that puts together a programming language and various libraries for manipulating and visualizing data. | as far as I know (AFAIK), everything | Mac, Windows | high | Though Matlab is a very powerful environment, it doesn't come without its costs (starts at ~$500) and its steep learning curve (learning the programming language, acquaintance with toolsets and libraries, etc.). | |
Open Refine | A free, open source, power tool for working with messy data. | TSV, CSV, *SV, Excel (.xls and .xlsx), JSON, XML, RDF as XML, and Google Data documents are all supported. Support for other formats can be added with OpenRefine extensions. | Mac, Windows and Linux | low | Useful feature is the "text facet". Used to group related data from Ushahidi reports, eg categories. |
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