The Ushahidi Blog » hhi http://blog.ushahidi.com Thoughts and Lessons from an African Open-Source Project Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:33:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 An Empirical Study Using Ushahidi Data http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2008/10/23/an-empirical-study-using-ushahidi-data/ http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2008/10/23/an-empirical-study-using-ushahidi-data/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:57:12 +0000 Erik Hersman http://blog.ushahidi.com/?p=77 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.

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