Preis Tobias, Moat Helen Susannah, Bishop Steven R, Treleaven Philip, Stanley H Eugene
1] Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Scarman Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK [2].
Sci Rep. 2013 Nov 5;3:3141. doi: 10.1038/srep03141.
Society's increasing interactions with technology are creating extensive "digital traces" of our collective human behavior. These new data sources are fuelling the rapid development of the new field of computational social science. To investigate user attention to the Hurricane Sandy disaster in 2012, we analyze data from Flickr, a popular website for sharing personal photographs. In this case study, we find that the number of photos taken and subsequently uploaded to Flickr with titles, descriptions or tags related to Hurricane Sandy bears a striking correlation to the atmospheric pressure in the US state New Jersey during this period. Appropriate leverage of such information could be useful to policy makers and others charged with emergency crisis management.
社会与技术之间日益增加的互动正在产生大量关于我们人类集体行为的“数字痕迹”。这些新的数据源正在推动计算社会科学这一新兴领域的快速发展。为了调查用户对2012年桑迪飓风灾难的关注情况，我们分析了来自Flickr（一个用于分享个人照片的热门网站）的数据。在这个案例研究中，我们发现，拍摄并随后上传到Flickr且标题、描述或标签与桑迪飓风相关的照片数量，与同期美国新泽西州的大气压力存在显著相关性。合理利用此类信息可能对政策制定者及其他负责应急危机管理的人员有用。
