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SUBMITTER: Arthur R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5791948 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arthur Rudy R Boulton Chris A CA Shotton Humphrey H Williams Hywel T P HTP
PloS one 20180131 1
"Social sensing" is a form of crowd-sourcing that involves systematic analysis of digital communications to detect real-world events. Here we consider the use of social sensing for observing natural hazards. In particular, we present a case study that uses data from a popular social media platform (Twitter) to detect and locate flood events in the UK. In order to improve data quality we apply a number of filters (timezone, simple text filters and a naive Bayes 'relevance' filter) to the data. We ...[more]