Social Media Data Mining for Disaster Resilience and Emergency Management

The project team:

• Interdisciplinary Computation & Analysis of Resilience (ICAR)

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Publications:

• Mining Twitter Data for Improved Understanding of Disaster Resilience

• Social and geographical disparities in Twitter use during Hurricane Harvey

• Remotely sensed big data: evolution in model development for information extraction

• Use of Twitter in disaster rescue: lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey

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The work was supported by the following two NSF funded projects:

• IBSS-L: Understanding Social and Geographical Disparities in Disaster Resilience Through the Use of Social Media

• RAPID: The Changing Roles of Social Media in Disaster Resilience: The Case of Hurricane Harvey