Session 5 - Social Media for Emergency Management

Date: Thursday, October 3rd, 2019.

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"

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:
  • Ch1: Andrey Belinskiy and Arien Shibani
  • Ch2: Jørgen Nyborg-Christensen and Benjamin Andersen
  • Ch3: Bjørn Helge Sandblåst and Carl Christophe Louis Søilen-Knutsen
  • Ch4: Edvard Tobias Austad Lindgren and Håvard Brynjulfsen
  • Ch5: Jostein Skadberg and Karoline Øijorden
  • Ch6: Kine Aveline Sommerstad Bergseth and Malin Wist Jakobsen
  • Ch7: Maria Ovchinnikova and Markus Andre Pedersen

Slides: Session-5: See canvas