Friday, April 4, 2008

Analytical Imagination: Multi-media Analytical Products

While reading this CNN article on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, I was thinking about how the products of analysis in the future will be more like this interactive map with video and text than the static reports most analysts produce. What will you produce in the future?

Another example from the media is the Los Angeles Times Homicide Map. It is the type of analytical "product" that we should be able to produce as analysts but seldom, if ever, create in this type of digital, interactive format. Don't you think officers and decision-makers would find this type of intelligence useful?

Watch the video at the link at Crime Clusters in Kennewick and give some thought to the future of static mapping/reporting and the involvement of the media and citizens in the future of crime and intelligence analysis.

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