Data in disasters: Saving lives and innovating in real time
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Field Innovation Team mines over 7 million tweets with Splunk and finds a clear spike in the phrase “please help” on Oct 30–31 after Hurricane Sandy, tying social signals to outages, fuel shortages and surge in service requests. The team builds automated damage-assessment pipelines, uses drones to map post-mudslide topography at Oso, and integrates findings with FEMA and External Affairs so response priorities shift in real time.
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