The Platform
The Data Entry and Exploration Platform (DEEP) offers a suite of tools and collaborative workflows that meet the needs for compiling, storing and structuring data and qualitative information. It was initially established in 2016 in the aftermath of the Nepal Earthquake to strengthen collective sense-making and analysis.
More than 4,500 users in over 70 countries from the humanitarian and development communities are seeking to achieve a more robust, collaborative and transparent approach to needs assessments and situation analysis using DEEP’s open and free services.
6,000+
Current Users
90+
Countries
DEEP promotes transparency, information sharing and collaborative workflows and minimizes fragmentation of initiatives, and duplication of efforts. The platform promotes data sharing as well as confidentiality for private projects.
DEEP is free, open source, and fully accessible for all humanitarian and development users. Even the smallest local NGOs have access to a basic set of tools and services for secondary data analysis.
DEEP uses data standards and common taxonomies, e.g., CODs, to ensure compatibility with other tools, datasets and processes.
Features
DEEP is an intelligent web-based platform offering a suite of collaborative tools tailored for qualitative and secondary data review:
An open-source collaborative platform for analysis that simplifies the workflow of design, data acquisition, analysis, communication and documentation.
Customized use of analysis frameworks to structure desk reviews, analysis or monitoring where users can create or collaborate on projects as well as import and tag documents and export the results.
AI-Powered assisted tagging – the advanced Natural Language Processing enables the user to efficiently annotate and categorize content in the documents saving time and resources significantly. An active learning system is installed to train the platform further to achieve higher accuracy.
Specialized modules for exploratory, descriptive, and interpretative analysis supporting information experts and analysts engaged in emergency responses and dedicated to country monitoring or situational analysis.
The ability to conduct joint analysis across an ever-increasing set of crisis data which is curated and made available in a common workspace.
Create
Collate
Structure
Explore
analyse
monitor
analysis framework
Create
- Create new projects to monitor
- Identify and request to join and collaborate on existing projects
- Clone, adapt or design your analysis framework and approach
assessment registry
Collate
- Add own leads and sources
- Connect to multiple real-time data sources or feeds
- Access structured and organized historical data
STRUCTURED DATA & REPOSITORY
Structure
- Structure and organize data based on agreed analysis framework
- Benefit from semi-assisted tagging
- Retrieve historical data from the common data repository
ANALYSIS MODULE
Explore
- Add own leads and sources
- Connect to multiple real-time data sources or feeds
- Access structured and organized historical data
JOINT ANALYSIS
analyse
- Identify, discuss and interpret jointly patterns, trends, anomalies
- Set common priorities
SITUATION & RISK MONITORING
monitor
- Signal new and significant changes that pose a threat to people’s conditions, cross severity thresholds and require intervention
DEEP Now
DEEP supports a variety of field or headquarters-based institutional work streams requiring solutions for managing unstructured data such as:
Secondary Data Review
For informing specific research, context, needs or situational analysis
Assessment Registry
Cataloguing existing assessment reports for easy retrieval and understanding of where needs related information is available and identification of gaps
Protection Monitoring
Designed to identify violations of rights and protection risks for populations of concern
Risk Analysis
Using media monitoring and collaborative analysis as a basis for detection of changes and early warning informing early action
By the numbers
2,700+
Projects
6,000+
Users
90+
Countries
90,000+
Sources
640,000+
Annotations
Case Studies
Situational analysis for emergencies
- IMAC Ukraine – SDR and analysis in support of the UN led Information Management and Analysis Cell
- Pakistan Floods – SDR and analysis
- Turkey & Syria Earthquake – SDR and situation analysis through the DEEP Surge Analysis Cell
Secondary data review
GIMAC – DEEP SDR support to the Global Information Management and Analysis Cell for CV-19 joint analysis and monitoring in 7 countries.
Media monitoring
- IFRC – Using DEEP to monitor the situation of Syrian refugees in Turkiye through media monitoring, informing the largest refugee-related media library worldwide.
- iMMAP – Using DEEP to monitor the humanitarian situation of Indigenous Communities in Colombia.
Operational learning
- IFRC – DEEP applied in RCRC network to consolidate learnings from across operations to improve response
- GHC – DEEP used to structure and analyze primary data in order to evaluate the GHC response to COVID-19 worldwide.
Protection analysis
- UNHCR – Child Protection monitoring
- DRC – Piloting DEEP for use with the Protection Analytical Framework
Partners & Network
DEEP is governed by a multi-stakeholder consortium. The secretariat is established and hosted by the Danish Refugee Council. The platform is developed and maintained by Data Friendly Space - DEEP’s principal technology partner.
Get in touch with us
We are here to help! Get in touch for a tutorial, questions or suggestions on improvements.
DEEP Project Manager: pm@thedeep.io
Technical Support: admin@thedeep.io
