Sunday, February 24, 2013

Why Many Didn't Get Sandy Phone Alerts | Essentials

Why Many Didn't Get Sandy Phone Alerts

PHILIPS SHP1900 Headphones
PHILIPS SHP1900 Headphones by Andres Rueda
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Excerpt:

Throughout the worst of Hurricane Sandy, simply minutes prior to the storm will make landfall, lots of in the afflicted states heard a noise over the wind and the rain. It came from their smartphone. For some, it was a loud buzzing with an emergency alert image, discussing that they ought to take shelter. For others, it was in fact a female robotic voice, notifying them of an emergency. Those %%PRO6%% were what FEMA and the FCC call cordless emergency alerts or WEAs. They were created to alert people via their phones about three kinds of emergencies-- brewing threats ( consisting of extreme or severe weather condition ), AMBER alerts, and presidential alerts (alerts provided by the head of state ).

People:

AMBER alerts

Overall Sentiment: -0.14127

Relevance: 0.835109

Chris Guttman-McCabe

Overall Sentiment: -0.0305882

Relevance: 0.480692

SentimentQuote
0.253135"It's a technology upgrade," Guttman-McCabe said. ...
0.0991183"It's a technology upgrade," Guttman-McCabe said. "As new phones come out, there is extreme likelihood that they can receive these."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.3522533
  • Mean: 0.17612665
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

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  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

NaturalDisaster: Hurricane Sandy

Overall Sentiment: -0.382788

Relevance: 0.320458

Company: AT&T

Overall Sentiment: -0.014126

Relevance: 0.511437

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Company: Google

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.309

Disambiguation: AcademicInstitution | AwardPresentingOrganization | OperatingSystemDeveloper | ProgrammingLanguageDeveloper | SoftwareDeveloper | VentureFundedCompanyReferences:

Technology: iPhone

Overall Sentiment: -0.100386

Relevance: 0.527828

OperatingSystem: Android

Overall Sentiment: 0.282968

Relevance: 0.362328

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