Modern & Im/material things: Crowdsourced Data and Impact Findings: Haiti

(bold text below is my emphasis - tricia)

modernandmaterialthings:

Christina Corbane and her team at the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) have come up with some interesting findings that prove otherwise. They used the reports mapped on the Ushahidi-Haiti platform to show that this crowdsourced data can help predict the spatial distribution of structural damage in Port-au-Prince.

Via OWNI

For the data geeks, this is pretty neat. As these research techniques develop, I think they’ll be used by across domestic and international emergency and public health groups. For those of us in social media marketing and advertising, this may create new opportunities to geotarget ads or create new hybrid digital or marketing strategies by location. But mostly, the data geek in me wants to rock out.