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Group 10 -- Humanitarian responses to natural disasters

Provocative question

How can real-time data inform humanitarian responses to natural disasters?

Project Name: Big Disaster|Localized Action|(Big Data 9-1-1)

Project Question: How can we use big data to inform more comprehensive localized disaster response?

Datasets:

• Community Profile

o   Infrastructure
o   Land use
o   Demographics + Vulnerability

• Hazard/Environmental Data

o   Weather data
o   Fuel Condition
o   Topography

• Near real time data sources

o   Remote sensing
o   Social media
o   Incident reporting

• What worked well for your team?

o   Whiteboard brainstorming
o   Having some facilitator help (Max, Ty, and Lise) SME expertise
o   Focusing in on an idea by detailed discussion
o   Team size being smaller

• What’s one thing you would change?

o   One thing that could help in the future, is having a location where participants can identify certain facilitators with subject matter expertise to aid if a group    gets stuck.

• Did we have an “ah-ha” moment?

o   Not too much but focusing on a smaller more manageable task, and still ideate on the future state real time analysis.

• Did we experience the groan zone?

o   With a smaller group of 4 people it allows for less time in the groan zone and easier understanding of the problem. We started out with way too large of a scope, and with a smaller group it allowed us to narrow that scope into a manageable chunk.

Datasets

  1. Census Blocks – US Census Bureau
  2. Building Footprints – Microsoft/OSM
  3. Burn Probability – US Forest Service
  4. Property Counts - BUPR
Last update: 2024-05-15