SMART:  Using Social Media Data for Emergency Management
Channel: Purdue Engineering
Date: 2018-04-24

Purdue University researchers have developed an online platform that enables first responders to monitor emergency situations using tweets and Instagram posts.  

Social Media Analytics and Reporting Toolkit (SMART) is a browser-based platform that filters social media content according to key words and geographic regions defined by the user. First responders have been using a beta version of the tool to analyze both live and historical data. Purdue researchers are presenting new SMART features on Thursday (April 26) at the Association for Computing Machinery CHI 2018 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

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Featured Purdue Researchers:  
David Ebert, Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jiawei Zhang, Graduate Research Assistant, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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More about SMART and Purdue's VACCINE lab:  https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/vaccine/

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