Data for nuclear non-proliferation

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Identifying meaningful networks Non-textual data and new media sources

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Identifying meaningful networks

Non-textual data and new media sources

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Gaining perspective

Volume, speed, credibility – emergent behaviour

• How useful is {near} real-time?

• What makes something meaningful (and to whom)

• Are some events being picked up by mistake

• How do users behave!

Humans Huddle

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Humans Huddle

“the potential in the era of big data comes

not from drowning in a sea of data but

navigating the most useful ways to

derive insight and develop innovative

strategies”.Leverage relational approaches to interpret aggregated human behaviour

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Tracking information sharing

Social media zeitgeist

Jabhat al-Nusra video propaganda:

• shot on the battle field in Syria, • uploaded via YouTube • sharing via Twitter (and others)

Tweeting for the Caliphate: Twitter as a beacon in the new media zeitgeist. CTC Sentinel 2013 (http://bit.ly/17Aqej9)

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Open source relational data66 important Jihadist accounts on Twitter

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Tracking Response

Information sharing network over time

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• Combining transactional data

• Is GDELT picking up ‘indicator’ events

• Co-citation or Co-author networks

• API, RSS, Crawlers, Mapbox

Other sources

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Volume, speed, credibility – emergent behaviour

• Aggregated human behaviour • What makes an action or network

meaningful• Triangulate via mixed data sources

• (tools such as Maltego3, MongoDB, Gephi, python & Neo4J)

• Work in genuinely interdisciplinary teams

Final thought – Reading the signs