Disaster recovery groups still have a lot of work to do in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and one of these volunteer organizations has optimized its efforts using software from a company called Palantir, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. The software allows relief coordinators from Team Rubicon to track their volunteers using GPS, upload geo-tagged photos for reference, and determine which areas are most in need of assistance using demographic, census, and poverty data combined with damage reports.
Palantir — aptly named after the seeing stones in Lord of the Rings — gained prominence in the past several years not for designing disaster-relief systems, but providing US intelligence with software to track ally troops and suspected...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/27/3698266/palantir-team-rubicon-hurricane-sandy
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