A timeline of cartographic creation with recommendation tidbits on process and approaches. Lots of maps, lots of ideas, trite comments form yours truly.
The need for an alerting engine of this type gained urgency here, after the recent events at the Boston Marathon.What you see here are the locations of tweets 12 hours before and 12 hours after the bombing. The result is pretty much a population map of Boston on that day.
These highlighted tweets, by the way, contain the word, “marathon,” and essentially plot the course for us.
These are the tweets that occurred within the first few minutes following the bombing.
Here are those tweets, further isolated to those that happened to be in tight proximity to eachother.
Here are those tweets, refined further to only those sharing a common topic.This is what the Quorum Alerting machine will see. It will provide security and risk teams with geographically precise and timely alerts of detected events on the ground as they happen, whereupon they can be triaged by personnel perhaps before standard alerting sources may come in.We are thrilled with the performance and validity of Quorum’s initial tests in the wild and feel very positively about the benefit it can bring to responders.