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MicroMappers Launched for Pakistan Earthquake Response (Updated)
Update 1: MicroMappers is now public! Anyone can join to help the efforts! Update 2: Results of MicroMappers Response to Pakistan Earthquake [Link] MicroMappers was not due to launch until next month...
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AIDR: Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response
Social media platforms are increasingly used to communicate crisis information when major disasters strike. Hence the rise of Big (Crisis) Data. Humanitarian organizations, digital humanitarians and...
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Humanitarian Crisis Computing 101
Disaster-affected communities are increasingly becoming “digital” communities. That is, they increasingly use mobile technology & social media to communicate during crises. I often refer to this...
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Analyzing Tweets on Malaysia Flight #MH370
My QCRI colleague Dr. Imran is using our AIDR platform (Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response) to collect & analyze tweets related to Malaysia Flight 370 that went missing several days ago....
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Using AIDR to Collect and Analyze Tweets from Chile Earthquake
Wish you had a better way to make sense of Twitter during disasters than this? Type in a keyword like #ChileEarthquake in Twitter’s search box above and you’ll see more tweets than you can possibly...
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Automatically Classifying Text Messages (SMS) for Disaster Response
Humanitarian organizations like the UN and Red Cross often face a deluge of social media data when disasters strike areas with a large digital footprint. This explains why my team and I have been...
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