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Haiti-themed inspiration:

http://www.good.is/post/design-an-infographic-for-haiti-submissions/

Max.



On 15 February 2010 16:31, Tim Kamau <maqtim@...> wrote:
> Couldn't agree more with you guys.
> Those who need a trimmed report, choose the fields they need then have an
> option to do a summary graph( more than one kind should be availed) based on
> the specific statistics they need.That will sure help users get relevant
> reports. In addition to that, it may be good to have, by default, a full
> report that contains everything since its very likely that given the kind of
> situations covered by ushahidi, most folks will want as much if not all data
> in one go then sort as they need. That then creates flexibility and allows
> for the two.
> I also agree, we should allow for those who want to use the reports as a
> source of an import into another app or db hence the need for as many
> formats......
>
> Tim.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Linda Kamau <kamaulynder@...> wrote:
>>
>> I like the idea.Some food for thought though.
>> 1. What if we had the option of different versions e.g PDF,XML,CSV(like in
>> http://haiti.ushahidi.com) or the other version proposed by Kaushal
>> 2.On the representation part,can they vary in terms of pie chart,bar
>> graphs,line graphs or even gant charts?
>> We could borrow ideas from the feltron reports,i like them.
>> Wild thought?
>>
>> Linda Kamau
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:05 PM, <ksjhalla@...> wrote:
>>>
>>> May I suggest a Worl & PDF version option. I built a reporting engine for
>>> Wells Fargo and it was always good practice to provide a comprehensive
>>> report and allow managers the flexibility to remove fields that were
>>> irrelevant and/or add notes to the report before distributing it.
>>>
>>> Kaushal
>>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Henry Addo <henry@...> wrote:
>>>
>>> Good idea in fact. The report is really detailed. If we could provide
>>> other versions too, I think people will be interested. Say much trimmed
>>> version of the whole report. I'm sure people will be interested in getting
>>> specific reports.
>>> Another option we could include is a print function so when you hit on
>>> the print button it goes to the printer.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:23 PM, David Kobia <david@...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Patrick brought up a very interesting point about a "Create Situation
>>>> Report" button within an Ushahidi deployment that would create a
>>>> downloadable PDF from the main page. I just wanted to push this
>>>> discussion into the mailing list so that we can hopefully get this
>>>> feature built in. Attached is a sample report from Kenya, along with a
>>>> mock of a simplified version of what the pdf might look like.
>>>>
>>>> Since we're on the subject of stats, you guys should also look at the
>>>> Feltron Reports that have inspired many -
>>>> http://feltron.com/index.php?/content/2008_annual_report/P1/
>>>>
>>>> Other Links:
>>>> - http://www.fpdf.org/
>>>> - http://sourceforge.net/projects/html2fpdf/
>>>>
>>>>
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