Dr. T. Edwin Chow is a professor in the Department of Geography at Texas State University. His research interests are geocomputation, small area population modeling, and environmental modeling. He has published dozens of empirical and theoretical articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and refereed conference proceedings. He has received contracts/grant funding from NSF, AAG, and Census Bureau. His recent projects investigate the potential of big data, including web demographics and social media, to unearth spatial patterns in human movement in dynamic events, e.g., disaster response, protests, etc.