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Digital Humanitarians : How Big Data Is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781482248401
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.3480285
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The Rise of Digital Humanitarians -- Mapping Haiti Live -- Supporting Search and Rescue Efforts -- Preparing for the Long Haul -- Launching an SMS Life Line -- Sending in the Choppers -- OpenStreetMap to the Rescue -- Post-Disaster Phase -- The Human Story -- Doing Battle with Big Data -- Rise of Digital Humanitarians -- This Book and You -- Chapter 2: The Rise of Big (Crisis) Data -- Big (Size) Data -- Finding Needles in Big (Size) Data -- Policy, Not Simply Technology -- Big (False) Data -- Unpacking Big (False) Data -- Calling 911 and 999 -- Big (Bias) Data Exposed -- To Tweet, or Not to Tweet -- How Many Tweets Are Enough? -- The Demographic Game -- Managing Big (Risk) Data -- Taking Big (Decisions) Data -- Chapter 3: Crowd Computing Social Media -- A Pain in the Side of Putin -- Here Come the Crowdsourcerers -- The Escalating Crisis in Libya -- Time for Smart Crowdsourcing -- Typhoon Season in the Philippines -- MicroMappers vs. Typhoon Yolanda -- Chapter 4: Crowd Computing Satellite and Aerial Imagery -- Crowdsearching Flight 370 -- Genghis Khan in Somalia -- From Astrophysics to Zoomanitarians -- UAVs as Humanitarian Technologies -- UAVs Take Off in the Philippines -- Humanitarian UAV Network -- Aerial Selfies for Disaster Response -- Chapter 5: Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response -- Lees' Guide to the Game of Checkers -- From Haystacks to Meadows -- Tracking the Meadows of Syria -- The Red Cross Digital Operations Center -- Taking on Artificial Intelligence -- The UN's Big (SMS) Data Problem -- Chapter 6: Artificial Intelligence in the Sky -- Machine Learning with Pictures -- Automated Imagery Analysis of Haiti and Beyond -- Coming Soon: Satellite Alchemy -- Galaxy Class Machines.
Artificial Intelligence at a Profit -- Automated Analysis of UAV Imagery -- Chapter 7: Verifying Big Crisis Data with Crowd Computing -- I'm Not Gaddafi -- A Disease on the Map of Russia -- Wag the Dog or Wag the Needle? -- Digital Sherlock Holmes -- The Skype Detectives -- Digital Scotland Yard -- One, Two, Ten Red Weather Balloons -- Surely, Verily, Truly -- Chapter 8: Verifying Big Data with Artificial Intelligence -- Artificial Rumors -- BBC's Big Data Blues -- Groundbreaking Insights from Chile -- Artificial Intelligence beyond Chile and Tweets -- Toward Some TweetCred -- Chapter 9: Digital Humanitarians in the Arab Spring -- Crowdsourcing Convoys -- The Mapping Reflex -- Prelude to an Egyptian Revolution -- Crowdsourced Election Monitoring Results -- Assessing the Impact of Crowdsourced Monitoring -- Dictators versus Digital Humanitarians -- The Future of Digital Activist Humanitarians -- Chapter 10: Next-Generation Digital Humanitarians -- A Question of Policy -- Less Computing, More Enlightenment -- Data Fission to Data Fusion -- Mission Not So Impossible -- The Future of Data Privacy, Protection, and Ethics -- Open Data and #NoShare -- Democratizing Humanitarian Technology -- Game On, Digital Humanitarians -- The Share Economy for Disaster Response -- The Kind of World I Want to Live In -- Endnotes -- About the Author -- Index.
Summary: This gripping real-time drama is set against the devastation of the Haiti earthquake. The author, a pioneer of digital humanitarianism, didn't stay idle long. This book explains the technology behind this new wave of ICT networking and data mining.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The Rise of Digital Humanitarians -- Mapping Haiti Live -- Supporting Search and Rescue Efforts -- Preparing for the Long Haul -- Launching an SMS Life Line -- Sending in the Choppers -- OpenStreetMap to the Rescue -- Post-Disaster Phase -- The Human Story -- Doing Battle with Big Data -- Rise of Digital Humanitarians -- This Book and You -- Chapter 2: The Rise of Big (Crisis) Data -- Big (Size) Data -- Finding Needles in Big (Size) Data -- Policy, Not Simply Technology -- Big (False) Data -- Unpacking Big (False) Data -- Calling 911 and 999 -- Big (Bias) Data Exposed -- To Tweet, or Not to Tweet -- How Many Tweets Are Enough? -- The Demographic Game -- Managing Big (Risk) Data -- Taking Big (Decisions) Data -- Chapter 3: Crowd Computing Social Media -- A Pain in the Side of Putin -- Here Come the Crowdsourcerers -- The Escalating Crisis in Libya -- Time for Smart Crowdsourcing -- Typhoon Season in the Philippines -- MicroMappers vs. Typhoon Yolanda -- Chapter 4: Crowd Computing Satellite and Aerial Imagery -- Crowdsearching Flight 370 -- Genghis Khan in Somalia -- From Astrophysics to Zoomanitarians -- UAVs as Humanitarian Technologies -- UAVs Take Off in the Philippines -- Humanitarian UAV Network -- Aerial Selfies for Disaster Response -- Chapter 5: Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response -- Lees' Guide to the Game of Checkers -- From Haystacks to Meadows -- Tracking the Meadows of Syria -- The Red Cross Digital Operations Center -- Taking on Artificial Intelligence -- The UN's Big (SMS) Data Problem -- Chapter 6: Artificial Intelligence in the Sky -- Machine Learning with Pictures -- Automated Imagery Analysis of Haiti and Beyond -- Coming Soon: Satellite Alchemy -- Galaxy Class Machines.

Artificial Intelligence at a Profit -- Automated Analysis of UAV Imagery -- Chapter 7: Verifying Big Crisis Data with Crowd Computing -- I'm Not Gaddafi -- A Disease on the Map of Russia -- Wag the Dog or Wag the Needle? -- Digital Sherlock Holmes -- The Skype Detectives -- Digital Scotland Yard -- One, Two, Ten Red Weather Balloons -- Surely, Verily, Truly -- Chapter 8: Verifying Big Data with Artificial Intelligence -- Artificial Rumors -- BBC's Big Data Blues -- Groundbreaking Insights from Chile -- Artificial Intelligence beyond Chile and Tweets -- Toward Some TweetCred -- Chapter 9: Digital Humanitarians in the Arab Spring -- Crowdsourcing Convoys -- The Mapping Reflex -- Prelude to an Egyptian Revolution -- Crowdsourced Election Monitoring Results -- Assessing the Impact of Crowdsourced Monitoring -- Dictators versus Digital Humanitarians -- The Future of Digital Activist Humanitarians -- Chapter 10: Next-Generation Digital Humanitarians -- A Question of Policy -- Less Computing, More Enlightenment -- Data Fission to Data Fusion -- Mission Not So Impossible -- The Future of Data Privacy, Protection, and Ethics -- Open Data and #NoShare -- Democratizing Humanitarian Technology -- Game On, Digital Humanitarians -- The Share Economy for Disaster Response -- The Kind of World I Want to Live In -- Endnotes -- About the Author -- Index.

This gripping real-time drama is set against the devastation of the Haiti earthquake. The author, a pioneer of digital humanitarianism, didn't stay idle long. This book explains the technology behind this new wave of ICT networking and data mining.

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