D8A Group

D8A Group uses data visualization and predictive analytics to help create safer smarter cities.

D8A Group ('data group') builds products that make it easy to derive trends, patterns, and predictive analytics from social media conversations. We are making the world's information easier to understand, visualize and share with practical big data products that make working with real-time data streams easy for technical and non-technical people alike. We provide online surveillance tools for mining online populations that are used across many verticals: City & Government, Marketing/PR, Humanitarian response, and Public Safety. The company was founded in 2011 by Jon Gosier who previously worked as Director of Data Products at [Ushahidi](http://crunchbase.com/organization/ushahidi/).