Big Crisis Data

Big Crisis Data

Social Media in Disasters and Time-Critical Situations

Castillo, Carlos

Cambridge University Press

07/2016

224

Dura

Inglês

9781107135765

15 a 20 dias

During natural disasters people make extensive use of social media. How can this avalanche of messages be processed to extract the information needed to save lives? This book brings together computational methods from many disciplines for processing social media messages under time-critical constraints.
1. Introduction; 2. Volume: data acquisition, storage, and retrieval; 3. Vagueness: natural language and semantics; 4. Variety: classification and clustering; 5. Virality: networks and information propagation; 6. Velocity: online methods and data streams; 7. Volunteers: humanitarian crowdsourcing; 8. Veracity: misinformation and credibility; 9. Validity: biases and pitfalls of social media data; 10. Visualization: crisis maps and beyond; 11. Values: privacy and ethics; 12. Conclusions and outlook.
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