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Preis, Tobias, Moat, Helen Susannah, Bishop, Steven R., Treleaven, Philip and Stanley, H. Eugene (2013) Quantifying the digital traces of Hurricane Sandy on Flickr. Scientific Reports, Volume 3 . Article: 3141. doi:10.1038/srep03141 ISSN 2045-2322.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep03141
Abstract
Society’s increasing interactions with technology are creating extensive “digital traces” of our collective human behavior. These new data sources are fuelling the rapid development of the new field of computational social science. To investigate user attention to the Hurricane Sandy disaster in 2012, we analyze data from Flickr, a popular website for sharing personal photographs. In this case study, we find that the number of photos taken and subsequently uploaded to Flickr with titles, descriptions or tags related to Hurricane Sandy bears a striking correlation to the atmospheric pressure in the US state New Jersey during this period. Appropriate leverage of such information could be useful to policy makers and others charged with emergency crisis management.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software Q Science > QC Physics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Internet -- Social aspects , Digital communications -- United States, Social media -- United States, Flickr (Electronic resource), Hurricane Sandy, 2012 | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Scientific Reports | ||||
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | ||||
ISSN: | 2045-2322 | ||||
Official Date: | 5 November 2013 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 3 | ||||
Page Range: | Article: 3141 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1038/srep03141 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 December 2015 | ||||
Funder: | Research Councils UK (RCUK), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF), National Business Center (U.S.) | ||||
Grant number: | EP/K039830/1 (RCUK) ; CMMI 1125290 (NSF) ; D12PC00285 (NBC) |
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