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Definition:
SHANTI Interactive Visualizations Application (SHIVA) is an online application that makes it easy to produce interactive visualizations from various
media - photographsmedia—such as photographs, videos,
texts - or easy to create structured data in the form of rows and columns within Google spreadsheetsand 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
SHIVA was inspired by David Weinberger's Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A unified theory of the Web; it
is a simple and consistent interface that allowsallows easy and integrated access to open source and open access 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
toin 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
without requiring a website to store them, embedded into existing WordPress and Drupal sites, or combined into fully interactive visualizations, where you can make sophisticated interactions between them
can be easily made
Related step-by-step guides:
For general information on using SHIVA, see Menu Block 1: Creating SHIVA Visualizations