Jennings Anderson PhD
Welcome to my node on the net. I'm a GeoInformation Scientist and Software Engineer.
See my CV, or email me at to get in touch.
Welcome to my node on the net. I'm a GeoInformation Scientist and Software Engineer.
See my CV, or email me at to get in touch.
I built full-stack data analysis systems to explore the history and evolution of OpenStreetMap and its community. I published summaries of this work on my OSM Diary. I also built large-scale Twitter data analysis systems as a postdoctoral researcher at CU Boulder. This work responded to mis- and disinformation on social media regarding the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic. We wrote about this research in our blog, A Post-Mortem of @realDonaldTrump.
My research career began in 2013 by building systems to support Crisis Informatics research on volunteers producing geographic information to support disaster response and humanitarian aid (Disaster Mapping). I completed my PhD in computer science in 2019, working with Professors Leysia Palen and Ken Anderson in Project EPIC—a pioneering research lab in the crisis informatics domain. Other research I conducted at The University of Colorado Boulder included collecting and analyzing massive quantities of geo-referenced tweets posted during disasters to learn about protective decision-making practices on social media.
2021 Update on Paid Editing in OpenStreetMap presented country-level OSM paid editing statistics from 2019 through 2021.
Post-Mortem of @realDonaldTrump was a blog series about our research on this era in social media.
activity.youthmappers.org was an interactive map and dashboard that tracked the growth and mapping coverage of the YouthMappers project.
March 2021: I was interviewed by Daniel O'Donohue on the Mapscaping Podcast about OpenStreetMap as a "community of communities."
Nov 2020: OpenStreetMap is Having a Moment by Joe Morrison prominently featured our 2019 research on Corporate Editing in OSM.
Oct 2020: Our Twitter research was featured in this Washington Post Article published just before the 2020 US Presidential Election: The unseen machine pushing Trump’s social media megaphone into overdrive
See my CV for a complete list, or email me at to get in touch.
