{"id":386,"date":"2011-09-16T14:25:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T12:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2011-09-16T14:25:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T12:25:56","slug":"live-mapping-of-tweets-facebook-emails-sms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/2011\/09\/16\/live-mapping-of-tweets-facebook-emails-sms\/","title":{"rendered":"Live mapping of tweets, facebook msgs, emails, sms&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the Wikimedia blog I stumbled over <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wikimedia.org\/2011\/09\/13\/ushahidi-to-track-breaking-news-trends-on-wikipedia\/\">this<\/a> interesting post. They mention a framework called <a href=\"http:\/\/ushahidi.com\">Ushahidi<\/a> (Swahili word for &#8220;testimony&#8217;) with its subproject SwitfRiver which can be used to track and verify the reliability of news concerning current trending topics, possibly helping editors of Wikipedia to enhance the quality.<\/p>\n<p>Digging into I found out the framework is used for live mapping (collection, aggregation and visualization) of disaster and event related messages sent via all different kinds of transports (e.g., twitter, facebook, email, sms&#8230;). One example is the <a href=\"http:\/\/haiti.ushahidi.com\">2010 Haiti earthquake<\/a>. Where it helped to coordinate all the s&#038;r teams.<\/p>\n<p>As I find it quite fascinating how much people who sit at home in their living rooms might be able to help others in a disaster region, I&#8217;d like to suggest this talk:<br \/>\n<iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hh_PiVqf8BA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the Wikimedia blog I stumbled over this interesting post. They mention a framework called Ushahidi (Swahili word for &#8220;testimony&#8217;) with its subproject SwitfRiver which can be used to track and verify the reliability of news concerning current trending topics, possibly helping editors of Wikipedia to enhance the quality. Digging into I found out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,37,46,50,91,98,99,100,101,112,169,173,174,188],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pYA5n-6e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":260,"url":"https:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/2010\/10\/06\/datavizandopendata\/","url_meta":{"origin":386,"position":0},"title":"Beautiful data visualizations and why we need open data","date":"2010-10-06","format":false,"excerpt":"Today when I attended a talk at LWA 2010 I remembered a nice talk about beautiful data visualization by Hans Rosling, that I want to share with you (it's worth the time): When I searched for this talk I also came across the follwing two, the one above is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"open data\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28,"url":"https:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/linkdump\/","url_meta":{"origin":386,"position":1},"title":"Linkdump","date":"2010-07-13","format":false,"excerpt":"Did you know: Visone a nice tool to visualize graphs (kind of graphviz interactive) userfly a usability testing tool for websites (provides videos of user interaction)","rel":"","context":"In \"dot\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":454,"url":"https:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/ted-hans-rosling-religions-and-babies\/","url_meta":{"origin":386,"position":2},"title":"TED: Hans Rosling - Religions and Babies","date":"2012-05-30","format":false,"excerpt":"Heh, Hans Rosling did it again... fascinating stats and explaining world's population growth (the big fill-up) with some leftover boxes. http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies.html","rel":"","context":"In \"open data\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":104,"url":"https:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/precision-recall-diagrams-including-fmeasure\/","url_meta":{"origin":386,"position":3},"title":"Precision-Recall diagrams including F-Measure height lines","date":"2010-07-22","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I was asked how to generate Recall-Precision diagrams including the f-measure values as height-lines from within python. 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