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Proposer

David Corne

Title

social media sensing

Goal

to gather useful data on what the Earth is happening

Description

Social media, particularly twitter (thanks to available APIs) is commonly being mined to gather information of various kinds. E.g. "what are people currently saying about Obama?", "how happy have people in Finland been in the past week", or "how much flu seems to be around in Devon at the moment". Similar to Mike Chantler's project on twitter visualization, this project is to do that sort of thing, but with an emphasis on applications that will be of interest to our contacts in the British Geographical Survey (BGS - see www.bgs.ac.uk). This project will use appropriate text mining techniques to 'sense' from tweets (or other social media) what seems to happening around the planet in terms of, e.g., landslides, tremors, coastal erosion, and other such things.

Resources

the usual

Background

strong programmer, not too scared of maths

Url

Difficulty Level

Challenging

Ethical Approval

None

Number Of Students

0

Supervisor

David Corne

Keywords

Degrees