HDMA “GeoViewer” and “SMART Dashboard” for Nepal Earthquake Disaster Response and Assistance
Free and open web apps to track real-time messages, pictures, and locations from social media (Twitter) for disaster response and assistance efforts.
GeoViewer
SMART Dashboard
The Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age (HDMA) at San Diego State University
developed a web-based social media mapping application, called “GeoViewer”,
which can visualize the location-based social media (Twitter) in various cities
and locations. This tool has collected real-time location-based tweets in Nepal
and nearby areas since April 25, 2015. Users can search for the most recent tweets
or historical tweets (since 4/25) by using keywords, spatial boundaries, or
time. The mapping functions include hot spots, cluster maps, two base
maps (OpenStreetMap and ESRI Satellite imagery layers) with adjustable transparency
settings.
The GeoViewer [Geo-targeted Event Observation (GEO) Viewer] has
been developed mainly by Dr. Calvin Jung (Chief Data Scientist at HDMA center) with
the founding support from National Science Foundation (Award# 1416509 and #1028177),
San Diego State University, and the collaboration with the County of San Diego,
Office of Emergency Services (contact: Robert Barreras). Please use the GeoViewer
and give us feedback about how to improve the tool for the future disaster response
and assistance.
SMART Dashboard is a Geo-Targeted search tool for Twitter messages to monitor the diffusion of information and social behavior changes which provides an automatic procedure to help researchers to:
(1) search geographically in cities.
(2) filter noises (such as removing redundant retweets and using machine learning methods to improve precisions)
(3) analyze social media data from a spatiotemporal perspective
(4) visualize social media data in various aspects (such as weekly and monthly trends, top URLs, top retweets, top mentions, or top hashtags).
Sincerely,
Ming-Hsiang (Ming) Tsou, Ph.D. mtsou@mail.sdsu.edu Telephone:
(619)594-0205
Director, the Center for Human Dynamics in the
Mobile Age, San Diego State University.
