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Social Media for Emergency Management: Question of Supply and Demand
I’m always amazed by folks who dismiss the value of social media for emergency management based on the perception that said content is useless for disaster response. In that case, libraries are also...
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Data Science for Social Good: Not Cognitive Surplus but Cognitive Mismatch
I’ve spent the past 12 months working with top notch data scientists at QCRI et al. The following may thus be biased: I think QCRI got it right. They strive to balance their commitment to positive...
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Data Science for 100 Resilient Cities
The Rockefeller Foundation recently launched a major international initiative called “100 Resilient Cities.” The motivation behind this global project stems from the recognition that cities are facing...
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Stunning Wind Map of Hurricane Sandy
Surface wind data from the National Digital Forecast Database is updated on an hourly basis. More galleries of stunning wind maps here.
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Radical Visualization of Photos Posted to Instagram During Hurricane Sandy
This data visualization (click to enlarge) displays more than 23,500 photos taken in Brooklyn and posted to Instagram during Hurricane Sandy. A picture’s distance from the center (radius) corresponds...
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Data Protection: This Tweet Will Self-Destruct In…
The permanence of social media such as tweets presents an important challenge for data protection and privacy. This is particularly true when social media is used to communicate during crises. Indeed,...
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Big Data & Disaster Response: Even More Wrong Assumptions
“Arguing that Big Data isn’t all it’s cracked up to be is a straw man, pure and simple—because no one should think it’s magic to begin with.” Since citing this point in my previous post on Big Data for...
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Quantifying Information Flow During Emergencies
I was particularly pleased to see this study appear in the top-tier journal, Nature. (Thanks to my colleague Sarah Vieweg for flagging). Earlier studies have shown that “human communications are both...
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Integrating Geo-Data with Social Media Improves Situational Awareness During...
A new data-driven study on the flooding of River Elbe in 2013 (one of the most severe floods ever recorded in Germany) shows that geo-data can enhance the process of extracting relevant information...
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Can This Unique Conservation Drone Be Used for Disaster Response?
I had the distinct honor of both keynoting & judging the outstanding Drones for Good Challenge in Dubai last week (see my live reports). Teams from all around the world came to the UAE to compete....
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