Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
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We demonstrate that psychological models of utility discounting can explain the pattern of increased hits to weather websites in the days preceding a predicted weather disaster. We parsed the HTTP request lines issued by the web proxy for a mid-sized enterprise leading up to a hurricane, filtering for visits to weather-oriented websites. We fit four discounting models to the observed activity and found that our data matched hyperboloid models extending hyperbolic discounting.