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Definition:
SHIVA stands for "SHANTI Interactive Visualizations Application
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SHIVA
)is an online application that makes it easy
to produceto create interactive
visualizations fromvisualizations using various forms of media—such as photographs, videos, and texts
Also create visualizations from sets of your own numerical data, formatted in a Google docs spreadsheet according to the requirements of a particular visualization
Create charts, tables, maps and subway maps, network graphs, timesliders, gauges, videos with annotation, images, and slideshows
SHIVA can be used alone, or in conjunction with various
SHIVA was inspired by David Weinberger's Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A unified theory of the Web; it allows easy and integrated access toopen source and open access web tools
on the web, such as Google's Visualization Toolkit and Maps, YouTube, Vimeo, and Kaltura videos, the SIMILE timeline from MIT, and images from ARTstor, Flickr, and Picasa
Use SHIVA in conjunction with these open access tools to create charts, maps, images, timelines, video, and networks
The visualizations you create can be used as stand-alone webpages, embedded into existing WordPress and Drupal sites, or combined into fully interactive visualizations, where you can make sophisticated interactions between them
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For general information on using SHIVA, see Menu Block 1: Creating SHIVA Visualizations
For general information on using Google Docs spreadsheets to upload data into SHIVA, see the Load Your Data into SHIVA Using Spreadsheetsguides