Patrick Meier: Analyzing Foursquare Check-Ins During Hurricane Sandy — Coment on Why Free Cell Phones for the Five Billion Poor Needed
“When rare events at the scale of Hurricane Sandy happen, we expect them to leave an unquestionable mark on Social Media activity.” So the authors applied the same methods used to produce the above graph to visualize and understand changes in behavior during Hurricane Sandy as reflected on Foursquare and Twitter. The results are displayed below . …