Patrick Meier: Use of Social Media to Anticipate Human Mobility and Resilience During Disasters
Using Social Media to Anticipate Human Mobility and Resilience During Disasters The analysis of cell phone data can already be used to predict mobility patterns after major natural disasters. Now, a new peer-reviewed scientific study suggests that travel patterns may also be predictable using tweets generated following large disasters. In “Quantifying Human Mobility Perturbation and Resilience in Hurricane Sandy,” co-authors Qi Wang and …