DIY do-gooders direct Caribbean disaster relief efforts
by Peter Ford, Staff Writer

The Christian Science Monitor    Translate This Article
4 October 2017

On 4 October 2017 The Christian Science Monitor reported: Want to help Puerto Rico recover? Amateur analysts of satellite imagery around the world are pointing relief workers to where they are needed most. Anyone can do it! Humans are better than computers at understanding unstructured data, such as satellite photos, because that requires context, says Steven Reece, a machine learning expert at Oxford. The computer 'can remove biases, fold in other information, and come up with a 95 percent reliable best guess' at the real situation on the ground, Dr. Reece explains. That information is then expressed in a 'heat map' that goes to disaster relief teams so that they can set their priorities. ... But between them, says Professor Simmons, an astronomer, 'they did two years' worth of one person's work in just two weeks' when Irma, and then Maria, struck. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of science, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

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