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Proposer
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David Corne
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Title
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social media sensing
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Goal
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to gather useful data on what the Earth is happening
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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.
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the usual
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Background
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strong programmer, not too scared of maths
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Difficulty Level
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Challenging
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Ethical Approval
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None
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Number Of Students
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0
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Supervisor
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David Corne
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