Crowd-sourced crisis mapping is a relatively new phenomenon and platform that enables the collection and visualization of real-time crisis data submitted by users through social media tools and cellular technologies. Crisis maps are generally used by both state and nonstate
actors for sense-making and as a reference point for action. The current crisis map visualizations only show the location documents such as reports or short messages have been generated from. Such a limited representation fails to immediately show important content, such as themes from a document and their changes over time. As a result, sense-making becomes time-consuming and cognitively
demanding. I present a set of visualization tools: Geo-Temporal Tag Visualization (GTViz), Geo-Temporal Pies and Geo-SparkClouds that treat the tags on the crowd-sourced reports as spatio-temporal textual datasets and provide interaction tools to explore the content of the reports. I also demonstrate the value of such tools with case studies and a controlled user study.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MANITOBA/oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/23659 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Aman, Hina |
| Contributors | Irani, Pourang (Computer Science), Leung, Carson (Computer Science) Mandal, Saumen (Statistics) |
| Publisher | ISCRAM, IEEE PacificVis |
| Source Sets | University of Manitoba Canada |
| Detected Language | English |
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