Comments on: Social Media as a Sensor – Leveraging Crowd-Sourced Data for Early Warning and Response http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2011/01/24/social-media-as-a-sensor-%e2%80%93-leveraging-crowd-sourced-data-for-early-warning-and-response/ Discussing Policies Critical To The Nation Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:09:02 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David Sonnen http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2011/01/24/social-media-as-a-sensor-%e2%80%93-leveraging-crowd-sourced-data-for-early-warning-and-response/comment-page-1/#comment-203 David Sonnen Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:09:02 +0000 http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/?p=669#comment-203 Sara, You've raised some important issues: 1) event streams from social media and sensors can provide useful information for emergency management; 2) filtering social media feeds for useful information is hard; and 3) emergency managers don't trust social media. The trust issue will resolve if we figure out how to make social media information relevant and reliable. That's a tall order. I don't have an answer. But, I think that the folks who might are using big data statistics to solve hard problems like language translation, intelligence and brand awareness. It would be interesting to find out if methods developed for solving complex intelligence and business problems using big data could help us in the EM space. Sara,

You’ve raised some important issues: 1) event streams from social media and sensors can provide useful information for emergency management; 2) filtering social media feeds for useful information is hard; and 3) emergency managers don’t trust social media.

The trust issue will resolve if we figure out how to make social media information relevant and reliable. That’s a tall order. I don’t have an answer. But, I think that the folks who might are using big data statistics to solve hard problems like language translation, intelligence and brand awareness.

It would be interesting to find out if methods developed for solving complex intelligence and business problems using big data could help us in the EM space.

]]> By: Bill Boyd http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2011/01/24/social-media-as-a-sensor-%e2%80%93-leveraging-crowd-sourced-data-for-early-warning-and-response/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Bill Boyd Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:42:48 +0000 http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/?p=669#comment-148 Strong work Sara. Don't forget monitoring SM/data for response perception by the public. Wrote about it a little on my blog (my first ever foray into this realm). Strong work Sara. Don’t forget monitoring SM/data for response perception by the public. Wrote about it a little on my blog (my first ever foray into this realm).

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