Using Twitter data to correlate power grid malfunctions
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There’s an increasing excitement about using new technologies - like social media and ‘big data’ - in research about disasters and emergencies. There are a large number of possible ways of approaching this question, though, so developing these methods first requires ‘pilot’ attempts at testing whether they actually work. In this post, I’ll explore an article - “Embracing Human Noise as a Resilience Indicator: Twitter as Power Grid Correlate” - that attempts a proof-of-concept for one way of applying these tweets.