Evaluating Disaster Time-Line from Social Media with Wavelet Analysis
| dc.contributor.author | Anam, Amrita | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gangopadhyay, Aryya | |
| dc.contributor.author | Roy, Nirmalya | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-19T17:23:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-19T17:23:23Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | —For over a decade, social media has proved to be a functional and convenient data source in the Internet of things. Social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit have their own styles and purposes. Twitter, among them, has become the most popular platform in the research community due to its nature of attracting people to write brief posts about current and unexpected events (e.g., natural disasters). The immense popularity of such sites has opened a new horizon in ‘social sensing’ to manage disaster response. Sensing through social media platforms can be used to track and analyze natural disasters and evaluate the overall response (e.g., resource allocation, relief, cost and damage estimation). In this paper, we propose a two-step methodology: i) wavelet analysis and ii) predictive modeling to track the progression of a disaster aftermath and predict the time-line. We demonstrate that wavelet features can preserve text semantics and predict the total duration for localized small scale disasters. The experimental results and observations on two real data traces (flash flood in Cummins Falls state park and Arizona swimming hole) showcase that the wavelet features can predict disaster time-line with an error lower than 20% with less than 50% of the data when compared to ground truth. | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles preprints | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/M2PG1HR7H | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/11017 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | IEEE | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Information Systems Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Student Collection | |
| dc.rights | This item may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. It is made available by UMBC for non-commercial research and education. For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the author. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Flash Flood | en_US |
| dc.subject | Disaster Response | en_US |
| dc.subject | Wavelet Analysis | en_US |
| dc.subject | Social Media | en_US |
| dc.title | Evaluating Disaster Time-Line from Social Media with Wavelet Analysis | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |