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Digital humanitarians how big data is changing the face of humanitarian response

The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the lack of information. Making sense of this information--Big Data--is proving an impossible challenge for traditional humanitarian organizations, which is precisely why they're turning to D...

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Main Author: Meier, Patrick (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL CRC Press 2015
Subjects:
Big data > Social aspects
Disaster relief > Data processing
Humanitarian intervention > Data processing
Humanitarian assistance > Data processing
Emergency management > Data processing
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Table of Contents:
  • The rise of digital humanitarians
  • The rise of big (crisis) data
  • Crowd computing social media
  • Crowd computing satellite and aerial imagery
  • Artificial intelligence for disaster response
  • Artificial intelligence in the sky
  • Verifying big crisis data with crowd computing
  • Verifying big data with artificial intelligence
  • Digital humanitarians in the Arab Spring
  • Next-generation digital humanitarians.

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