Xcelsius Earthquake Tracker
Xcelsius Earthquake Tracker
Written by: Ryan Goodman
Published: January 13th, 2010
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Published: January 13th, 2010
3638 views
Posted in Dashboards, Xcelsius
Living in southern California and having lived in Los Angeles, the threat of earthquakes is normal. With heavy news coverage of earthquakes these last few weeks, I decided to put together a quick Xcelsius visualization. 15 minutes of research and Xcelsius work led to a Google Map that displays a live XML feed of worldwide earthquakes. Dragging the slider will filter out eathquakes under the user specified magnitude. If anyone has any ideas of some interesting data that I should mashup with the earthquake data feel to share with the group and I will see what I can do to quickly integrate it.
I have included the source files so you can see how it was built.
Source Files
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Comment from: Yoav [Visitor] 
A Great presentation.
Data that could be interesting to mash:
1. Number of casualties
2.survivors precentage
3.time to re-built
4.migration data after the earthquakes
5.earthquakes times and how many times in same place.
6.weather previous earthquakes effected
new ones,was the magnitude increadsed by a previous earthquake?
7.ia there a time\geographical pattern
that can help predict the about to come earthquakes ?
Yoav
Data that could be interesting to mash:
1. Number of casualties
2.survivors precentage
3.time to re-built
4.migration data after the earthquakes
5.earthquakes times and how many times in same place.
6.weather previous earthquakes effected
new ones,was the magnitude increadsed by a previous earthquake?
7.ia there a time\geographical pattern
that can help predict the about to come earthquakes ?
Yoav
01/14/10 @ 02:23
Comment from: Jen Habicht [Visitor] · http://www.twitter.com/jenhabicht
I love how quickly you're able to develop these dashes. Very cool. I totally agree with Yoav, I also think it would be really interesting to be able to correlate an earthquake with the emergency response/volunteers and fundraising dollars from charities...
01/14/10 @ 16:52
Yoav,
This is all very interesting information and I really appreciate you sharing it with the group.
I am thinking that perhaps we do a time line so users can adjust when earthquakes happened. I also like the idea of perhaps using the color to indicate casualties. I will do some more playing around this weekend.
This is all very interesting information and I really appreciate you sharing it with the group.
I am thinking that perhaps we do a time line so users can adjust when earthquakes happened. I also like the idea of perhaps using the color to indicate casualties. I will do some more playing around this weekend.
01/15/10 @ 16:12
I think we would need better historical data to see what the response in $ would be. This is very interesting analysis that could be displayed as an option in this dashboard. The current configuration is setup to pull real-time data feed for earthquakes as they happen. I think in this case, the earthquakes roll off as new ones happen around the world.
Perhaps I will look to find some historical data about earthquakes in the last 5 years and see what type of information it conveys. I will continue to refine the simple view as we move toward a full blown dashboard.
Thanks again for the great ideas!
Perhaps I will look to find some historical data about earthquakes in the last 5 years and see what type of information it conveys. I will continue to refine the simple view as we move toward a full blown dashboard.
Thanks again for the great ideas!
01/15/10 @ 16:20
Comment from: Alden Blewden [Visitor]
Any chance you'll be able to overlay areas onto a google map using xcelsius? So, for example, you could see the population density within particular areas?
03/11/10 @ 18:59
We are absolutely going to have overlays for density mapping and polyshapes. I am working on the earthquake tracker 2.0 which will come packaged as a free template with GMaps Plugin 2.0 coming very soon :)
04/11/10 @ 19:43
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