How Hurricane Sandy’s impact was captured in Flickr data
So far, we’ve discussed various examples of how data from Google, Wikipedia and Twitter might give us new insight into human behaviour. Increasingly however, the information we are uploading to the Internet does not only contain text, but pictures too.
Watch this video to hear how environmental changes caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 were reflected in activity on the photo-sharing site Flickr. How might such findings be of use to policymakers and insurance companies?
Big Data: Measuring And Predicting Human Behaviour
Big Data: Measuring And Predicting Human Behaviour
Reach your personal and professional goals
Unlock access to hundreds of expert online courses and degrees from top universities and educators to gain accredited qualifications and professional CV-building certificates.
Join over 18 million learners to launch, switch or build upon your career, all at your own pace, across a wide range of topic areas.
