Patrick Meier: Use of Social Media to Anticipate Human Mobility and Resilience During Disasters

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Using Social Media to Anticipate Human Mobility and Resilience DuringĀ Disasters

The analysis ofĀ cell phone data can already be used to predict mobility patterns after majorĀ natural disasters. Now, aĀ new peer-reviewed scientific study suggests that travel patternsĀ may also be predictableĀ using tweetsĀ generated following large disasters. InĀ ā€œQuantifying Human Mobility Perturbation and Resilience in Hurricane Sandy,ā€ co-authors Qi Wang and John Taylor analyze some 700,000 geo-tagged tweets posted by ~53,000 individuals as they moved around over the course of 12 days. Results of the analysis confirm that ā€œSandy did impact the mobility patterns of individuals in New York City,ā€ but this ā€œperturbation was surprisingly brief and the mobility patternsĀ encouragingly resilient. This resilience occurred even in the large-scale absence of mobility infrastructure.ā€

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Berto Jongman: UN Report – USA Tops in Torture & Police Violence

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Corruption, Government, Military, Officers Call
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Berto Jongman

Being read in Europe.

UN Report Documents Torture, Police Violence in US

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While this remains a closed book to the American political establishment, the report underscores the seamless connection between military violence overseas and militarized police violence at home — though its criticisms are couched largely in racial terms.

 

 

Stephen E. Arnold: Search is Dead — and Search “Experts” are the Walking Dead

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Enterprise Search: Confusing Going to Weeds with Being Weeds

I seem to run into references to the write up by a ā€œexpertā€. I know the person is an expert because the author says:

As an Enterprise Search expert, I get a lot of questions about Search and Information Architecture (IA).

The source of this remarkable personal characterization is ā€œPrevent Enterprise Search from going to the Weeds.ā€ Spoiler alert: I am on record as documenting that enterprise search is at a dead end, unpainted, unloved, and stuck on the margins of big time enterprise information applications. For details, read the free vendor profiles at www.xenky.com/vendor-profiles or, if you can find them, read one of my books such as The New Landscape of Search.

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