Session 2 - Big Data for emergency management

Date: Friday August 31st

Papers:

• Emani, C. K., Cullot, N., & Nicolle, C. (2015). Understandable big data: A survey. Computer science review, 17, 70-81. File:EmaniEtAl2015-UnderstandableBigData-ASurvey-ComputerScienceReview.pdf
• By STEVE LOHR, The Age of Big Data, the newyork times, FEB. 11, 2012, [[ https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-impact-in-the-world.html]]

Suitable readings:

• Carlos Castillo's book Big Crisis Data chapters 2-11.
• Kitchin chapters 4 and 10.
• Supplementary paper: Big Data: The Management Revolution, by McAfee and Brynjolsson [[1]]

Topics:

• Introduction
• Follow up:
  • about the themes
  • about the essays
  • about the projects

Student preparations / presentations:

• Presentations by you:
  • From Castillo book,
    • chapter 2: volume Johnny Bjånesøy
    • chapter 3: vagueness Malene Gilje Fonnes
    • chapter 4: variety Viktor Hansen
    • chapter 5: virality Yngve Kristoffersen
    • chapter 6: velocity Taume Dery
    • chapter 7: volunteers Sebastian Øverhaug Larsen
    • chapter 8: veracity Marius Falch Lillevik
    • chapter 9: validity Kristoffer Torkildsen Marthinsen
    • chapter 10: visualization Andreas Iden
    • chapter 11: privacy and ethics Magnus Lyngseth Vestby

• A good tutorial:
  • Apache Spark Introduction - TutorialsPoint

Slides:

Session-2: File:S2-intro.bigdata.pdf

Other links:

• Erik Brynjolfsson on YouTube
• Rob Kitchin on YouTube