I am working on a project where I want to make an Information Visualization of the country Haiti, how it got affected by the earthquake. What I want to show on the plot is that how many civilians got killed in the earthquake per region area, how many got injured in the earthquake per region area and so on. With region I mean the every communes that the country Haiti is divided in which consists of 133 communes like Arcahaie, Ouanaminthe, Trod du Nord and so on. On this website I found the graphical image of the country with its division of the communes which is saved in shapefiles. But now I need to find statistical data on the death/injury toll per region area in Haiti and I haven’t managed to find that particular information in well known databases like Worldbank, WHO, Eclac, OECD, ICRC and IDB. All information I can find about the earthquake is how many got killed in total and where the most was killed, that is in the city Port-Au-Prince. So I am wondering I you know where exactly I can find this type of statistical data and which is preferrable saved in a spreadsheet data?

If you are not sure what I mean with Information Visualization you can check these two links

http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery.html
http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/geomap.html

/John

Great service…thank you so very much. Here’s $10 to your paypal account

Thank Roger. That helps a lot.

Well you are right on that, looked at the file and am back lost! Per the fusion tables help file: http://www.google.com/support/fusiontables/bin/answer.py?answer=174680&cbid=174680&src=cb&lev=index
Advice or guidance appreciated!! seems like the file I found linked to from “us-counties_nl.kml”>>”us-counties.kml” has the shapes in KML but don’t know how it gets the names??
This from the google fusion page:
Polygons or shapes

I’m not sure how you’d get the polygons into Fusion. I think Fusion will do the geocoding automatically, so you might not even need polygons. Just a spreadsheet with country names. The polygon kml data I created is split into 100’s of tiles, so I doubt fusion would be able to use it anyway.

duh!! I think I got it I downloaded your file (I did not understand that you had a file download with that big download with Google earth button)and I’m guessing I can just extract the Alabama counties!!

You won’t be able to extract the counties. I’m not sure exactly what you need for fusion tables.

I guess we’re all still waiting for the OS to free their maps. (ps im not affiliated with the site)