social media & emergency response russ johnson. social media, crowd sourcing & emergency...
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Social Media, Crowd Sourcing & Emergency Response
• How does GIS affect and Improve our ability to manage Social Media and Crowd Sourced Information ?
• What are some of the lessons learned?
• Where are we today?
Emergency Response
What are the Essential information Requirements?
• What’s is Happening ?
• Where is it Happening?
• What are the Impacts ?
• How did it Happen
• How does Social Media help? What are the Challenges?
What is Happening?
• The world is watching and wants to help
• Rumors will run rampant and be live-tweeted during crisis events
• Images and videos, no matter how graphic, will surface
• The amount of information available will become stifling
What is Happening?
• There will be volumes of social media concerning what is happening
• The accuracy of this information will be hard to determine
Where is it Happening?
• GIS can begin to focus the information
• Filter the incoming information by Geography
• What is being said by those near the event?
• Cut down the volume!
What are the Impacts?
• How do we determine the initial impact?
• What could the “downstream” effects be?
• What do we need learn more about?
Lessons Learned - Boston Marathon
• Understanding how it happened
• Thousands of photos, tweets, etc.
• Organizing the information and making sense of it
Summary
How does GIS help us deal with Social Media?
• GIS can help us understand and filter Social Media by Geography – Where
• When integrated with other GIS data, helps us understand
Potential Impacts - Potential Impacts
GIS helps us Understand how it happened
When, Where, and Who
Are we prepared to utilize Social Media?
- Do you the ability to intake, organize, and assess the data? (Big Data)
- Do you have the ability to Map it (location is available)
- Do you have the ability to Share it with the appropriate personnel?
- We still have work to do to utilize Social Media and Crowd Sourced Data in time sensitive situations
Summary