Air Twitter – FUNding Friday AwardESIP AQ Workgroup

Social Media and Air Quality

Social Media and Air Quality

Social Media Listening for Air Quality

Air Twitter Aggregator

RSS Feeds

Air Twitter Filter

ESIPAQWG

Air Twitter

•Using the consolidated AQ-Social Media stream, Air Twitter has two ‘listening’ goals: ▫Identify public concerns and resources about

air quality ▫Monitor the temporal trends of the stream

identify AQ Events from the background AQ chatter

Air Twitter – Event Identification

August 2009, Los Angeles Fires

Normal Weekly Trend

Air Quality EventSpacesEventSpaces are community workspaces on the ESIP wiki that are created to describe the Event

Science Data

Social Media

Air Quality EventSpaces – AQ Data

UserProvider

GEOSSClearinghouse

OGC CSW Queryable

Air QualitySpecific

ISO 19115CSW Profile

OGC CSW Returnable

MetadataDescription

Data Binding

Metadata for Finding and Accessing Data

Google Analytics Results: August LA Fires

Google Analytics Results: August LA Fires

580 Views

Google Analytics Results: August LA Fires

Future Work▫Georeference the aggregate stream in

order to see clustering of social media ▫To improve the form and function of the

EventSpace; Increasing the community contributions Preserving the pages

▫Extend of the Air Twitter tools to other applications

More Information/Feedback• http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Twitter_FUNding_Friday_Projec

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More Information/Feedback• http://twitter.com/ESIPAQWG

Acknowledgments

•Funding comes from Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) FUNding Friday Award, Summer 2009

Air Twitter – User Needs