http://www.pamelarutledge.com Dr. Pamela Rutledge on the Psychology of Social Media, Mass Media & Communications Technologies Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:43:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.pamelarutledge.com/2010/01/16/mapping-the-crisis-in-haiti-using-a-cognitively-effective-display-of-data/ http://www.pamelarutledge.com/2010/01/16/mapping-the-crisis-in-haiti-using-a-cognitively-effective-display-of-data/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:07:19 +0000 Pamela Rutledge http://www.pamelarutledge.com/?p=539 Edward Tufte would be proud.  This is an example of a brilliant use of social media and a cognitively effective display of the kind of data that social media can generate. Ushahidi are mapping crisis information from Haiti. They have integrated various data input sources, SMS, email, or web, and visually translated it onto a [...]]]> http://www.pamelarutledge.com/2010/01/16/mapping-the-crisis-in-haiti-using-a-cognitively-effective-display-of-data/feed/ 0