Update for Project EPIC: September 08, 2014

Protective Decision Making: Shelter in place or evacuate?

  1. Determining which users faced a decision: (Evacuate or Shelter-In-Place): New Coastline Study Area

  2. No longer using the triangle method because a user’s movement path should not be separated into the original time bins.

  3. New Design: Gather all of a user’s clusters

  4. Look at a user’s path between clusters:

User: iKhoiBui Before and during cluster:

Tweets during this time period:

What we’re currently doing

  1. Which users are we specifically interested in? Precision vs. Recall. The method is far from perfect, but that’s not the goal, we’re looking to cast a wide net and see who may have been forced to make a protective decision during the event.

  2. Qualitative Coding: Coding Scheme

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