More on Using Crowdsourced Data to Find Big Picture Patterns (Take 3)
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 7, 2011
Captain Lopez helps her team assess the quality, quantity and usefulness of these different streams, each of which plays a part of the picture of the situation. As a thought experiment, imagine this approach being used in the Japan tsunami. The helicopter survey is a more expensive, but more effective tool for getting the big picture.
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