TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meier,Patrick
AU  - 
TI  - Digital humanitarians: how big data is changing the face of humanitarian response 
SN  - 9781482248395 (Paperback)
U1  - 363.348068 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Boca Raton, FL : 
PB  - CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 
KW  - Emergency management
KW  - Big data
KW  - Disaster relief
KW  - Humanitarian intervention
KW  - Humanitarian assistance
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - NETC LRC call no. HV 639 .M511 2015; Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-220) and index; The rise of digital humanitarians --; The rise of big (crisis) data --; Crowd computing social media --; Crowd computing satellite and aerial imagery --; Artificial intelligence for disaster response --; Artificial intelligence in the sky --; Verifying big crisis data with crowd computing --; Verifying big data with artificial intelligence --; Digital humanitarians in the Arab Spring --; Next-generation digital humanitarians
N2  - This gripping real-time drama is set against the devastation of the Haiti earthquake. The author, a pioneer of digital humanitarianism, didn't stay idle long. Within hours, from his laptop, he'd assembled a global network of volunteers to collect, analyze, sift through, map, and relay accurate information from survivors on the ground voicing cries of help using social media. Their data-mining accomplishments were  Read more
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