Presentation: Building Data Products for Social Good @Facebook
Abstract
Facebook partners with humanitarian and academic organizations, as well as community-driven projects, like OpenStreetMap, on a number of Data for Good efforts. Examples of the outputs are
- the High-Resolution Settlement Layer, for which we identify the locations of human-built structures from high-resolution satellite images and add population data to it in collaboration with Columbia University,
- our Disaster Maps, which contain aggregated, anonymized information about the availability of network coverage and power availability, as well as human mobility in the context of natural disasters,
- our large-scale input into OpenStreetMap, for which we detect roads from high-resolution satellite images, prepare them for human review, and feed the results into OpenStreetMap
We will present details about the methods, challenges, and community feedback involved in producing these datasets, as well as the impact they've each had over the last two years.