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1/3 Sharing our @IOM_GMDAC @UNmigration experiences from exploring Google and Facebook data for #migration #forecasting over recent months: A tale of high policy expectations, promising results....BUT...a long road ahead for the field. https://medium.com/@UNmigration/using-big-data-to-forecast-migration-8c8e64703559
2/3 This links to several processes including the @eu2020de #migration4.0 agenda, many exciting new projects under @EU_H2020 incl @ITFLOWS1 @H20_HumMingBird @QuantMig
3/3 and it builds on the amazing work of various teams that really pushed the field forward incl. @ezagheni @ingmarweber @AndreGroeger @t_heidland @EU_ScienceHub and many others.
almost forgot: @EASO's @teddy_wilkin @MCarammia @iacus are also advancing forecasts on asylum related migration in a big way (incl. through the use of online news data etc.) using machine-learning techniques https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2011/2011.04348.pdf
big shout out also to co-authors @MurtizaNurmamat and @imgecetin2 who did the data crunching behind the scenes and @AndresArau for the beautiful visualizations in the piece.
