Preis, Tobias;
Moat, Helen Susannah;
Bishop, Steven R;
Treleaven, Philip;
Stanley, H Eugene;
(2013)
Quantifying the Digital Traces of Hurricane Sandy on Flickr.
Scientific Reports
, 3
, Article 3141. 10.1038/srep03141.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Quantifying the Digital Traces of Hurricane Sandy on Flickr |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/srep03141 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep03141 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Mathematics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1414902 |
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