Web-based data analysis environments are powerful platforms for exploring large data sets.
To ensure that these environments meet the needs of analysts, a human-centered design …

Web-based data analysis environments are powerful platforms for exploring large data sets.
To ensure that these environments meet the needs of analysts, a human-centered …

The field of crisis informatics is expanding, in large part because emergency response has
become increasingly focused on and affected by social media. Correspondingly, social …

Easy access to online media has led to an escalation of researchers and companies
developing information analysis systems for use in crisis response. These systems use state …

Everyday, enormous amounts of data are generated by a wide variety of computational
systems. This data needs to be collected, stored, and analyzed to generate insights and …

Crisis informatics is an emerging research area that studies how information and
communication technology (ICT) is used in emergency response. An important branch of this …

There is high demand for techniques and tools to process and analyze large sets of
streaming data in both industrial and academic settings. While existing work in this area has …

Vast information available on social media through citizen sensing, complemented by
diverse Web sources such as blogs, and news present an unprecedented opportunity for …

Automatically filtering relevant information about a real-world incident from Social Web
streams and making the information accessible and findable in the given context of the …

Crisis informatics is a field of research that investigates the use of computer-mediated
communication—including social media—by members of the public and other entities during …