Haiti: effective recovery through analysis
April 5th, 2010 |
[Editor's Note: an edited version of this post first appeared on O'Reilly's Radar blog.]
The prologue was an earthquake of unexpected magnitude and location that left 250,000 dead.
As computer scientists and technologists, we’re used to dealing with large numbers in the abstract. Expressed in human terms, the mind-boggling numbers of 250,000 dead, 300,000 injured and over 1 million people left homeless are hard to comprehend.
Hit the link to read more about how effective data management and analysis is crucial to recovery efforts and see specific examples of data about the situation in Haiti modeled in Palantir Government.
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