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| Author | Guoqin Ma; Chittayong Surakitbanharn | ||||
| Title | Predicting Hurricane Damage Using Social Media Posts Coupled with Physical and Socio-Economic Variables | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2019 | Publication | Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management | Abbreviated Journal | Iscram 2019 |
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| Keywords | Social media, disaster management, damage prediction | ||||
| Abstract | During a natural disaster or emergency event, individual social media posts or hot spots may not necessarily correlate to the most devastated areas. To better understand the correlation between social media and physical damage, we compare Tweets, data about the physical environment, and socio-economic factors with insurance claim information (as a proxy for physical damage) from 2017 Hurricane Irma in the state of Florida. We use machine learning to identify relevant Tweets, sensitivity analyses to identify socio-economic factors, and statistical regression to determine the predictive capability of insurance claims as a proxy for damage. We find that Tweets alone result in a poorly fitted regression model of insurance claims, but the inclusion of physical features (e.g., power outages, wind level) and socio-economic factors (e.g., population density, education, Internet access) improves the model?s fit. Such models contribute to the knowledge base that may allow social media to predict damage in real-time. |
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| Address | Stanford University, United States of America | ||||
| Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
| Publisher | Iscram | Place of Publication | Valencia, Spain | Editor  |
Franco, Z.; González, J.J.; Canós, J.H. |
| Language | English | Summary Language | English | Original Title | |
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| ISSN | 2411-3387 | ISBN | 978-84-09-10498-7 | Medium | |
| Track | T8- Social Media in Crises and Conflicts | Expedition | Conference | 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2019) | |
| Notes | Approved | no | |||
| Call Number | Serial | 1955 | |||
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