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📍Where people are right now matters in a crisis. WorldPop is turning anonymised social media data into real-time population insights for smarter aid. 🌍📊🚨

Learn more: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/transforming-social-media-signals-into-accurate-population-maps-for-crisis-response/

#HumanitarianData #PopulationMapping #DisasterResponse #GeospatialScience #SDGs #DataForGood

Transforming Social Media Signals into Accurate Population Maps for Crisis Response

WorldPop researchers unveil a Bayesian framework that transforms biased social media data into accurate, real-time population estimates for disaster response.

WorldPop

WorldPopProject Aug 5, 2025

🌍 We’re excited to share the release of 73 high-resolution, multi-temporal global geospatial open access datasets.

Led by Dorothea Woods, this ground breaking collection is set to transform how we model and understand human population distribution.

📅 Timeframe: Annual data from 2015–2020, with updates up to 2023 where available
🌐 Coverage: Global
📏 Resolution: ~100 meters (3 arc-seconds)

#GeospatialData #OpenData #PopulationMapping #DataForGood #PublicHealth

https://www.worldpop.org/blog/new-open-access-geospatial-datasets-to-enhance-global-population-mapping/