The increasing us of mobile smartphones and tablets is making it possible to generate data in the field and transmit it directly for analysis. In one example recently cited where such an approach was used for helping refugees, mobile data, including GPS data and the results of interviews were collected and sent directly to a center using ESRI analytics tools.
There, the data could be immediately visualized, analyzed and used for ongoing decisions.
"With ESRI software, we were able to visualize what was going on,'' said Andrew Schroeder, director of research and analysis at Direct Relief, a Santa Barbara, Calif., nonprofit organization that coordinates humanitarian aid and care for people in poverty or emergencies, noting that ArcGIS's mapping capabilities "allowed us to understand some of the dynamics around issues such as who seeks care, where they are from and what their neighborhood conditions are."
For more on this experience with real time data analytics, check out this article.
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