article thumbnail

If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

We were surprised when we reached a roadblock just West of El Paso. I was also surprised that El Paso, TX is only the half-way point between LA and Austin. Yes, that study and also Google’s Flu Trends are all about physical illness. Not knowing what we’d find over the horizon.

Twitter 36
article thumbnail

What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In August 2013, they sent an opt-in text message to area codes in El Paso and Chicago. The data set has been stripped of personal information and now available on a creative commons license at Crisis Trends. The first hire was a Data Scientist and CTO. It was designed and built on the notion of data collection and analysis.