Big Crisis Data: Social Media in Disasters and Time-Critical Situations

by Carlos Castillo and Carlos Castillo

Book Overview

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However, emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this information struggle with an avalanche of social media messages that exceeds the human capacity to process. Emergency managers, decision makers, and affected communities can make sense of social media through a combination of machine computation and human compassion - expressed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107135761
• ISBN13: 9781107135765
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.4"