I am the founder of an online social network for Baby Boomers http://www.snabbo.comSince the site was launched in 2009, I have been interested in offering researchers the use of Snabbo to investigate any relationship between belonging to a "niche" online community and the health and well-being of this aging demographic.Please feel free to contact me for further information or discussion.Barbara Crowley972.333.5528bcrowley(a)snabbo.com
This looks interesting. Might be worthwhile to probe.
Weave
Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment
Weave (BETA 1.0) is a new web-based visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. Weave is an application development platform supporting multiple levels of user proficiency – novice to advanced – as well as the ability to integrate, disseminate and visualize data at “nested” levels of geography.
Weave has been developed at the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research<http://www.uml.edu/centers/ivpr/> of the University of Massachusetts Lowell in partnership with the Open Indicators Consortium<http://www.openindicators.org/>, a nine member national collaborative of public and nonprofit organizations working to improve access to more and higher quality data.
Please check the information below for demos, download and documentation for Weave BETA 1.0
http://ivpr.github.com/Weave/
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Magdalena Olszanowski
PhD I
Communication Studies
Concordia University
Montréal, QC
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