Stories by Samuel Johnston

Samuel Johnston works for London-based tech start up OpenSignal, where manages the academic outreach for WeatherSignal. He has a first class degree in Politics and Social Theory from Cambridge University and frequently writes about crowdsourcing, privacy and mobile trends on the OpenSignal company blog.

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October 11, 2013

WeatherSignal: Big Data meets Forecasting

Smartphone-collected Big Data has the potential to transform the way we can understand and predict weather systems. Five months ago, we at OpenSignal (a project to map global cell phone signal coverage) launched an app called WeatherSignal to collect atmospheric data from smartphones.

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