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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 - photographs

  media—such as photographs, videos,

  texts - or easy to create structured data in the form of rows and columns within Google spreadsheets

  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

• 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 allows

  allows 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

  to

  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

  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