This week, our partners from SAS released a press release summarizing the findings from our collaborative research project, in which we worked together to investigate whether there are useful signals in online sentiment that could give early-warning indicators of rising unemployment, or indicate how people cope with unemployment. Two years worth of social media data (half a million blogs,...
Description:
This project investigates how social media and online user-generated content can be used to enrich the understanding of the changing job conditions in the US and Ireland by analyzing the moods and topics present in unemployment-related conversations from the open social web and relating them to official unemployment statistics. Two specific questions were addressed: can online...
Description:
This research identifies and quantifies discussion themes in Twitter data in order to investigate what indicators can help understand people’s perceptions and concerns around food, fuel, finance and housing in the US and Indonesia.
Partner:
Crimson Hexagon (www.crimsonhexagon.com)
Overview:
The purpose of this research project is to determine which indicators might be present in...
To support the international community in combating the criminal exploitation of migrants, UNODC conducted research aimed at monitoring smuggling in different regions of the world. This study, conducted as part of Global Pulse's "Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Assessment Fund" was carried out in Central America and Mexico, and assesses the risks, social costs and hardships of migrants seeking a...