Apps for Relief: Focus on Latin America
May 10th, 2017 | by EJC
What are the type of mobile apps used during the quakes in Latin America? David Novoa Romero explores some examples from the region
Browsing the "Big Data" Tag
5 Ways Journalists Benefit From Digital Dividends
June 30th, 2016 | by EJC
More than 40% of the world’s population is connected to the internet. We looked at what this means for journalists
Free The Data: FEMA’s New Data Visualisation Tool
July 10th, 2015 | by EJC
FEMA collects data from disasters, but not everyone has the skill-set to use this raw data. A new app released by FEMA aims to make this information more readily available to report on hazards past and present.
Sharing Your Location Privately
March 13th, 2015 | by EJC
Location is especially valuable and sensitive metadata, especially when there is a lot of it, because it can be used to derive so much information about a person. But is it possible to share this information in a privacy-preserving way
Can Data Help Us Understand How Citizens Feel About Their States?
January 21st, 2015 | by EJC
With no other means of voicing discontent, citizens can embrace extreme forms of protest against institutions and governments. Victoria L. Lemieux talks about how Big Data Analytics can help reveal under-reported citizen sentiments
Using Social Media To Anticipate Human Mobility And Resilience During Disasters
January 2nd, 2015 | by EJC
The analysis of cell phone data can already be used to predict mobility patterns after major natural disasters. Now, a new peer-reviewed scientific study suggests that travel patterns may also be predictable using tweets generated following large disasters
Establishing Social Media Hashtag Standards For Disaster Response
November 24th, 2014 | by EJC
While information scarcity has long characterized our information landscapes, today’s information-scapes are increasingly marked by an overflow of information—Big Data. To this end, encouraging the proactive standardization of hashtags may be one way to reduce this Big Data challenge
Can Twitter Data Be Used To Track Changing Food Commodity Prices?
September 4th, 2014 | by EJC
A Pulse Lab Jakarta research project mined Twitter for mentions of the price of beef, chicken and onion. Jong Gun Lee reports on the results
Israel, Gaza, War & Data – The Art Of Personalizing Propaganda
September 1st, 2014 | by EJC
As we construct our online profiles based on what we already know, what we’re interested in, and what we’re recommended, social networks are perfectly designed to reinforce our existing beliefs. Gilad Lotan examines how this influences the coverage we are exposed to of the 2014 Gaza conflict.
Monitorial Citizenship: Projects And Tools
August 26th, 2014 | by EJC
Election monitoring projects have been successful in policing blatant election fraud through citizen and third-party election monitoring, but the outcomes of these elections are not always closely related to a politician’s performance. The MIT Center for Civic Media looks at ways to extend monitoring activities beyond election cycles, using it as a tool for ongoing feedback and dialogue between elected officials and their constituents