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Six months later, Telford is now in charge of HDX – the humanitarian data exchange.
A data repository created by UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) to make humanitarian data accessible to relief workers in the field, as well as anyone else looking for humanitarian data.
She mentored a four-day workshop on humanitarian data visualization in Amman, Jordan, where she also gave two talks.
A quick solution to bring core humanitarian data together into a single spreadsheet for each office snowballed into a larger data infrastructure project.
The aim is to establish standards for humanitarian data and establish an open platform for information exchange among UN agencies, NGOs and government.
"It's not impossible to think that HDX could one day become a social data exchange for the aid sector rather than be limited to humanitarian data but we are years away from that".
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In that regard, it's much like a humanitarian data-centric Wikipedia, with individuals and organisations curating their specialist fields.
There has also been extensive damage to farmlands, according ACAPS, a humanitarian data-analysis organisation, which is the mainstay of most livelihoods in the affected regions.
For humanitarian big data this could mean that the collection of data might strictly be governed by a "need to know" principle.
Making sense of the development and humanitarian financing data was nigh impossible.
While at the GSD, Michael took courses in humanitarian response, data visualization, mapping, and programming which all culminated into his thesis project, the Ebola Outbreak Response Simulator.
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