Social Media Data
Below are all our blog posts with the tag "Social Media Data"

Searching for Digital Signals in Kenya
Global Pulse is currently working with USAID on a feasibility study to understand what social data can tell us about loans, and people’s access to finance in Kenya. To start, we’re looking

Global Pulse Recognized as 2013 Computerworld Honors Laureate
Washington, DC, 4 June 2012 – UN Global Pulse has been named by the Computerworld Honors Program as a 2013 Laureate. The program, founded in 1988 by International Data

Happy to announce we are recruiting
Yesterday at the Data for Development Challenge at the NetMob 2013 Conference, we heard from some of the brightest minds in data science, representing a community that is frankly brimming with

Can a country’s online “mood” predict unemployment spikes?
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

The Power of Big Data & Global Pulse Research (VIDEO)
How do you find indicators for changes human well-being in “big data”? How do you know which “digital signals” are relevant enough to warrant further investigation? These questions are