Jonathan Morgan
summary
A platform ingests thousands of Facebook pages and YouTube channels and extracts names, places and timestamps to produce event records; automated matching against NGO event datasets shows near-agreement with ground reports. The system identifies and maps barrel bomb attacks by keyword and location and plots when and where they occur, proving social media can approximate curated humanitarian data. All components are open source and ready for developer contributions and visualizations.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:25Humanitarian Data Sucks
- 0:40We Need Event Data
- 0:59Social Media = Holy Grail
- 1:12Social Content is Messy
- 1:26Needles in Very Big Haystacks
- 1:42Enter Brown Moses
- 1:57Truth in Open Data
- 2:44Us, to the Rescue!
- 3:14Raging Conflict
- 3:45The Map Was Accurate
- 3:59Barrel Bomb Hunting
- 4:16Tracking the Bombs
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