Download - Data for nuclear non-proliferation
Identifying meaningful networks
Non-textual data and new media sources
Gaining perspective
Volume, speed, credibility – emergent behaviour
• How useful is {near} real-time?
• What makes something meaningful (and to whom)
• Are some events being picked up by mistake
• How do users behave!
Humans Huddle
Humans Huddle
“the potential in the era of big data comes
not from drowning in a sea of data but
navigating the most useful ways to
derive insight and develop innovative
strategies”.Leverage relational approaches to interpret aggregated human behaviour
Tracking information sharing
Social media zeitgeist
Jabhat al-Nusra video propaganda:
• shot on the battle field in Syria, • uploaded via YouTube • sharing via Twitter (and others)
Tweeting for the Caliphate: Twitter as a beacon in the new media zeitgeist. CTC Sentinel 2013 (http://bit.ly/17Aqej9)
Open source relational data66 important Jihadist accounts on Twitter
• Combining transactional data
• Is GDELT picking up ‘indicator’ events
• Co-citation or Co-author networks
• API, RSS, Crawlers, Mapbox
Other sources
Volume, speed, credibility – emergent behaviour
• Aggregated human behaviour • What makes an action or network
meaningful• Triangulate via mixed data sources
• (tools such as Maltego3, MongoDB, Gephi, python & Neo4J)
• Work in genuinely interdisciplinary teams
Final thought – Reading the signs