An Empirical Study Using Ushahidi Data

An event data analysis study of the post-election violence in Kenya earlier this year was just completed by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. They compared mainstream news media, with citizen journalism and Ushahidi data. Below is the time-lapsed video of that data overlaying a map: Read about the methodology and find the report here. Yellow icon = mainstream news reports; Blue icon = citizen journalism blogs; Green icon = Ushahidi reports.