Digital humanitarians : how big data is changing the face of humanitarian response /: how big data is changing the face of humanitarian response. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Patrick Meier.
• Authors: Meier, Patrick
• Contents: The Rise of Digital Humanitarians ; Mapping Haiti Live; Supporting Search And Rescue Efforts; Preparing For The Long Haul; Launching An SMS Life Line; Sending In The Choppers; Openstreetmap To The Rescue; Post-Disaster Phase; The Human Story; Doing Battle With Big Data; Rise Of Digital Humanitarians; This Book And You; ; The Rise of Big (Crisis) Data; Big (Size) Data; Finding Needles In Big (Size) Data; Policy, Not Simply Technology; Big (False) Data; Unpacking Big (False) Data; Calling 991 And 999; Big (Bias) Data Unpacked; To Tweet, Or Not To Tweet; How Many Tweets Are Enough?; The Demographic Game; Big (Risk) Data; Big (Decisions) Data; ; Crowd-Computing Social Media ; A Pain In The Side Of Putin; Here Come The Crowdsourcerers; The Escalating Crisis In Libya; Time For Smart Crowdsourcing; Typhoon Season In The Philippines; Micromappers Vs Typhoon Yolanda; ; Crowd-Computing Disaster Imagery ; Crowdsearching Flight 370; The Search Genghis Khan Leads To Somalia; From Astrophysics To Zoomanitarians; Uavs As Humanitarian Technologies; Uavs Take Off In The Philippines; Aerial Selfies For Disaster Response; Humanitarian UAV Network; ; Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response; Lees’ Guide To The Game Of Checkers; From Haystacks To Meadows; Tracking The Meadows Of Syria; The Red Cross Digital Operations Center; AIDR: Artificial Intelligence For Disaster Response; Big (SMS) Data; ; Artificial Intelligence in the Sky; Machine Learning With Pictures; Automated Imagery Analysis Of Haiti And Beyond; Coming Soon: Satellite Alchemy; Galaxy Class Machines; Artificial Intelligence At Digitalglobe; Automated Analysis Of UAV Imagery; ; Verifying Big Crisis Data ; I’m Not Gaddafi; A Disease On The Map Of Russia; Wag The Dog Or Wag The Needle; Digital Sherlock Holmes; The Skype Detectives; Digital Scotland Yard; One, Two, Ten Red Weather Balloons; Surely, Verily, Truly; ; Verifying with Artificial Intelligence ; Artificial Rumors; BBC’s Big Data Blues; Groundbreaking Insights From Chile; Artificial Intelligence Beyond Chile And Tweets; Towards Some Tweetcred; ; Digital Humanitarians in the Arab Spring; Crowdsourcing Convoys; The Mapping Reflex; Prelude To An Egyptian Revolution; Crowdsourced Election Monitoring Results; Assessing The Impact Of Crowdsourced Monitoring; Digital Humanitarians Beyond The Arab Spring; The Future Of Digital Activist Humanitarians; ; Next Generation Digital Humanitarians ; A Question Of Policy; Less Computing, More Enlightenment; Data Fission To Data Fusion; Mission Not So Impossible; The Future Of Data Privacy, Protection And Ethics; Open Data And #Noshare; Democratizing Humanitarian Technology; Game On, Digital Humanitarians; The Share Economy For Disaster Response; The Kind Of World I Want To Live In; ;
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 363.3480285; Disaster relief -- Data processing; Big data; Social media
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482248401; 9781498726528
• Related ISBNs: 9781498726474; 9781482248395
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