Canary in a coal mine: monitoring air quality and detecting environmental incidents by harvesting Twitter

Authors:
Henricus Smid;Patrick Mast;Maarten Tromp;Andi Winterboer;Vanessa Evers
Affiliations:
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands;University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands;University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands;University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands;University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Venue:
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2011

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Abstract

We present an application that facilitates environmental monitoring by and for the general public. 'Canary in a Coal Mine' (CIACM) gathers and analyses pollution-related tweets in real-time from the micro-blogging platform Twitter and visualizes temporal and spatial characteristics of the data. CIACM allows citizens to keep track of the environmental quality of their region and empowers users to contribute to this public environmental monitoring system.