Session 5 - Social Media for Emergency Management

Date: Thursday October 25th

Chapters are from the book "big crisis data: Social media in disasters and time-critical situations"

• 1) Ch2: "Volume: Data acquisition, storage, and retrieval".
• 2) Ch5: "Virality: Networks and Information Propagation"
• 3) Ch6: "Velocity: Online Methods and Data Streams"
• 4) Ch7: "Volunteers: Humanitarian Crowdsourcing"
• 5) Ch8: "Veracity: Misinformation and Credibility"
• 6) Ch9: "Validity: Biases and Pitfalls of Social Media Data"
• 7) Ch10: "Visualization: Crisis Maps and Beyond"
• 8) Ch11: "Values: Privacy and Ethics"

Suitable readings:

• [Spark Streaming Programming Guide]
• [Spark Streaming, Minimized]
• Spark Streaming
• [Create a Twitter developer account]
• Social media and disasters: Current uses, future options, and policy considerations: File:CRS.pdf
• Social Network Graphs

Topics:

• Follow up:
  • about the programming project topics
• Paper presentations by you:
  • Paper 1:
  • Paper 2:
  • Paper 3:
  • Paper 4:
  • Paper 5:
  • Paper 6:
  • Paper 7:
  • Paper 8:

Slides: Session-5: [[:File:]]