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Definition:

• SHIVA stands for "SHANTI Interactive Visualizations Application

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• SHIVA

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  is an online application that makes it easy

  to produce

  to create interactive

  visualizations from

  visualizations 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 to

  open 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