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Making All Voices Count Using SMS and Advanced Computing 26 Aug 2013 | 12:23 pm
Local communities in Uganda send UNICEF some 10,000 text messages (SMS) every week. These messages reflect the voices of Ugandan youths who use UNICEF’s U-report SMS platform to share their views on a...
Can Official Disaster Response Apps Compete with Twitter? 13 Aug 2013 | 09:10 am
There are over half-a-billion Twitter users, with an average of 135,000 new users signing up on a daily basis (1). Can emergency management and disaster response organizations win over some Twitter us...
Taking the Pulse of the Boston Marathon Bombings on Twitter 12 Aug 2013 | 09:10 am
Social media networks are evolving a new nervous system for our planet. These real-time networks provide immediate feedback loops when media-rich societies experience a shock. My colleague Todd Mostak...
Radical Visualization of Photos Posted to Instagram During Hurricane Sandy 7 Aug 2013 | 09:10 am
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 ...
Stunning Wind Map of Hurricane Sandy 6 Aug 2013 | 09:10 am
Surface wind data from the National Digital Forecast Database is updated on an hourly basis. More galleries of stunning wind maps here.
Map: 24 hours of Tweets in New York 5 Aug 2013 | 09:10 am
The map below depicts geo-tagged tweets posted between May 4-5, 2013 in the New York City area. Over 36,000 tweets are posted on the map (click to enlarge). Since less than 3% of all tweets are geo-ta...
Data Science for 100 Resilient Cities 1 Aug 2013 | 06:06 pm
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...
The First Ever Spam Filter for Disaster Response 29 Jul 2013 | 09:10 am
While spam filters provide additional layers of security to websites, they can also be used to process all kinds of information. Perhaps most famously, for example, the reCAPTCHA spam filter was used ...
Crowdsourcing Life-Saving Assistance 23 Jul 2013 | 09:10 am
Disaster responders cannot be everywhere at the same time, but the crowd is always there. The same is true for health care professionals such as critical care paramedics who work with an ambulance ser...
Why Digital Social Capital Matters for Disaster Resilience and Response 22 Jul 2013 | 09:10 am
Recent empirical studies have clearly demonstrated the importance of offline social capital for disaster resilience and response. I’ve blogged about some of this analysis here and here. Social capital...
