| Researchers from McGill University have figured out a way to put our endless Twitter scrolling to good use during extreme weather events.
Using deep learning (a subset of artificial intelligence) and social network analysis, the McGill team has been able to make social media posts about extreme weather events more useful for crisis responders and scientists.
The researchers reduced the social-media “noise” to filter valuable information from all those tweets, allowing them to better assess trouble spots and assess users’ reactions to extreme weather events.
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