Crowdsourced Data and Impact Findings: Haiti
Christina Corbane and her team at the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) have come up with some interesting findings that prove otherwise. They used the reports mapped on the Ushahidi-Haiti platform to show that this crowdsourced data can help predict the spatial distribution of structural damage in Port-au-Prince.
Via OWNI
For the data geeks, this is pretty neat. As these research techniques develop, I think they’ll be used by across domestic and international emergency and public health groups. For those of us in social media marketing and advertising, this may create new opportunities to geotarget ads or create new hybrid digital or marketing strategies by location. But mostly, the data geek in me wants to rock out.
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I'm Christina Dennaoui. Sometimes I wax philosophical on culture in the digital age. I have an interest in social media, cultural studies, electronic music, critical theory, middle eastern politics, ethnographic research and digital anthropology. I make beats. I drink bourbon. I'm a nice lady, so you should talk to me.
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