Weave

Weave (BETA 1.0) is a new web-based visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. Weave is an application development platform supporting multiple levels of user proficiency – novice to advanced – as well as the ability to integrate, disseminate and visualize data at “nested” levels of geography.

Weave has been developed at the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research of the University of Massachusetts Lowell in partnership with the Open Indicators Consortium, a nine member national collaborative of public and nonprofit organizations working to improve access to more and higher quality data.

For details about the OIC, its founding and primary members, Weave's development and plans for future innovation, read our full announcement.

Please check the information below for demos, download and documentation for Weave BETA 1.0

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US demographics by county

Foreclosures in Lowell Massachusetts

The UN Millennium Development Goals in Weave, with an automatic regression line on the scatterplot.

Using WMS to overlay sattelite images in Map tool

Advanced shape streaming to support parcel level data

For download and installation instructions, vist our wiki.

The Weave core code is being released under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3), and the Weave API under the Mozilla Public License (MPL v 1.1). For accessing our source code and other related development work visit our GitHub site. Check the links below for documentation and demo videos.

The Open Indicators Consortium(OIC) is a multi-stakeholder partnership in the development of the open source platform Weave in collaboration with the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The OIC aims to spur the democratization and use of high quality data and data-driven problem-solving within and across neighborhoods, municipalities, sectors, states, regions and nations.

OIC offers three levels of membership.

Governing OIC Members include: Metro Atlanta - Atlanta Community Foundation, Atlanta United Way, Atlanta Regional Commission, Emory University; Metro Boston/Massachusetts - Boston Indicators Project at the Boston Foundation, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) and the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care; Metro Chicago - Chicago Metropolitan Planning Association (CMAP); Mid-Ohio - Community Research Partners and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC); Metro Seattle - Public Health , Seattle & King County; Arizona - Arizona Indicators, managed by Morrison Institute for Public Policy with support from Arizona State University and the Arizona Community Foundation; Connecticut - Connecticut Data Collaborative, managed by the Connecticut Economic Resource Center; Rhode Island - the Rhode Island Department of Education and Providence Plan; Michigan Data Collaborative a project managed by the Johnson Center's Community Research Institute and Data Driven Detroit; Rockford Region Vital Signs.