full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Rebecca Firth: Can we call it a "world map" if it's missing a billion people?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


When Hurricane miraa hit Puerto Rico in 2017, we all watched as a disatesr played out on our screens. At least 160,000 people were dcielapsd, and nearly 3,000 people died. Electricity was cut off to the entire island, and some neighborhoods didn't get power back for 11 mtohns. Many of those wciatnhg didn't know how to help. Some donated to international NGOs. Some lobbied their elected officials. But as with so many crises, so many of us simply gave in and felt helpless.

At the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, also known as HOT, we did something different. We mobilized 6,000 volunteers across the world who mapped every home and every road in Puerto Rico. And here you can see the maps those veruenltos made taking shape. reendposrs then used those maps to assess the state of bdingluis and roads and to provide emergency funds, WiFi and phone-charging points to people whose homes were dmgaaed.

Open Cloze


When Hurricane _____ hit Puerto Rico in 2017, we all watched as a ________ played out on our screens. At least 160,000 people were _________, and nearly 3,000 people died. Electricity was cut off to the entire island, and some neighborhoods didn't get power back for 11 ______. Many of those ________ didn't know how to help. Some donated to international NGOs. Some lobbied their elected officials. But as with so many crises, so many of us simply gave in and felt helpless.

At the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, also known as HOT, we did something different. We mobilized 6,000 volunteers across the world who mapped every home and every road in Puerto Rico. And here you can see the maps those __________ made taking shape. __________ then used those maps to assess the state of _________ and roads and to provide emergency funds, WiFi and phone-charging points to people whose homes were _______.

Solution


  1. displaced
  2. buildings
  3. responders
  4. maria
  5. disaster
  6. watching
  7. months
  8. damaged
  9. volunteers

Original Text


When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, we all watched as a disaster played out on our screens. At least 160,000 people were displaced, and nearly 3,000 people died. Electricity was cut off to the entire island, and some neighborhoods didn't get power back for 11 months. Many of those watching didn't know how to help. Some donated to international NGOs. Some lobbied their elected officials. But as with so many crises, so many of us simply gave in and felt helpless.

At the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, also known as HOT, we did something different. We mobilized 6,000 volunteers across the world who mapped every home and every road in Puerto Rico. And here you can see the maps those volunteers made taking shape. Responders then used those maps to assess the state of buildings and roads and to provide emergency funds, WiFi and phone-charging points to people whose homes were damaged.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
community health 4
health workers 4
billion people 3
puerto rico 2
vulnerable places 2
satellite imagery 2
base map 2
cell service 2
area home 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
community health workers 3

Important Words


  1. assess
  2. buildings
  3. crises
  4. cut
  5. damaged
  6. died
  7. disaster
  8. displaced
  9. donated
  10. elected
  11. electricity
  12. emergency
  13. entire
  14. felt
  15. funds
  16. gave
  17. helpless
  18. hit
  19. home
  20. homes
  21. hot
  22. humanitarian
  23. hurricane
  24. international
  25. island
  26. lobbied
  27. mapped
  28. maps
  29. maria
  30. mobilized
  31. months
  32. neighborhoods
  33. ngos
  34. officials
  35. openstreetmap
  36. people
  37. played
  38. points
  39. power
  40. provide
  41. puerto
  42. responders
  43. rico
  44. road
  45. roads
  46. screens
  47. shape
  48. simply
  49. state
  50. team
  51. volunteers
  52. watched
  53. watching
  54. wifi
  55. world