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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Human rights workers collect massive amounts of information about abuse that occurs in their countries—the individual stories are compelling, but scientific analysis of the collective data can inspire action. The analysis made news globally and expanded an international conversation.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, the UN Refugee Agency, encourages all field officers to tell the stories of the refugees they are working with as this recent tweet from Syria illustrates. One recent project is a real-time analysis and data visualization of the post2015 conversation on Twitter. UN Refugee Agency (@Refugees) January 13, 2014.

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