Haiti Crisis Communication Dashboard

Dan Hudson is a local Washington DC community volunteer,  a razor sharp developer, an avid fan of the Mashup Developer Community.  Recently, in his free time, he created the ‘Haiti Crisis Communication Dashboard’.

Dan built 5 mashups to track the crisis and he details all 5, in functionality and meaning, below:

• HaitiNews: “Creating a quick mashup of RSS news feeds saves me time by putting important news articles about Haiti in a single view. This mashup is available as a Mashlet, so other people can embed this customized news feed into their wikis, blogs, web site, & various applications. By making this mashlet available as RSS people can easily access the information on their mobile devices or smart phones.”
• HaitiFlickerPhotoMashup: “This  Mashup and Mashlet are images from the web that contain geocodes for the area of Haiti. This is a combination of technologies that combine YQL & Maps to display a map with pin points of where the image was taken according to the lat & long. This mashup can shed some additional light on what the area is like right now.”
• HaitionTwitter: “The Twitter Mashup and Mashlet gather data from people according to their location in Haiti. I simply pass  lat, long, & radius parameters to display messages from targeted locations. This allows us to track what type of help people still need in designated Haitian areas.”
• Top20EarthquakesbyUSGS: “By tracking the last 20 earthquakes within the last week, we can analyze potential areas that could also be hit be these devastating disasters.”
• HaitiWeather: “From the earthquake, most of the Haitian infrastructure has been destroyed and many people are living in tent cities. I think it would be relevant and important for people to view the upcoming weather forecast to better prepare for potential storms or droughts.” 

To check out the full Haiti Crisis Communication Dashboard on the Cloud, click here