[1]the physics arXiv blog [2]Cellphone records reveal the basic pattern of human mobility Posted: 11 Jun 2008 12:36 AM CDT [3]Mobile phone movement A few months back, we saw what happens when researchers get their paws on anonymixed mobile phone records. Albert-Laszlo Baribasi at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and some buddies used them [4]to discover entirely new patterns of human behaviour. Now Baribasi has dug deeper into the data and discovered a single basic pattern of human mobility. It's nothing special: lots of smallish journeys interspersed with occasional long ones (the length of the journey actually follows a power law). That's more or less what you'd expect but experimental confirmation is important. Human mobility is one of the crucial factors in understanding the spread of epidemics. Until now, the models that predict how disease spreads have had to rely on educated guesses about the way human travel patterns might affect this process. Baribasi's work will take just little of the guesswork out of future efforts and that can't be bad. Ref: [5]arxiv.org/abs/0806.1256: Understanding Individual Human Mobility Patterns [6][arXivblog?i=z4OL4F] [7][arXivblog?i=y5ryWI] [8][arXivblog?i=fzd18I] [9][arXivblog?i=N8D0Ki] [10][arXivblog?i=kdbiaI] [11][arXivblog?i=QNL54i] [12][arXivblog?i=Eb5OAI] [13][arXivblog?i=upfv3i] [14][arXivblog?i=j3iPUI] You are subscribed to email updates from [15]the physics arXiv blog To stop receiving these emails, you may [16]unsubscribe now. Email Delivery powered by FeedBurner Inbox too full? [17](feed) [18]Subscribe to the feed version of the physics arXiv blog in a feed reader. If you prefer to unsubscribe via postal mail, write to: the physics arXiv blog, c/o FeedBurner, 20 W Kinzie, 9th Floor, Chicago IL USA 60610 References 1. http://arxivblog.com/ 2. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/arXivblog/~3/309373937/ 3. http://arxivblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/mobile-phone-movement.jpg 4. http://arxivblog.com/?p=88 5. http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1256 6. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/arXivblog?a=z4OL4F 7. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=y5ryWI 8. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=fzd18I 9. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=N8D0Ki 10. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=kdbiaI 11. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=QNL54i 12. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=Eb5OAI 13. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=upfv3i 14. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=j3iPUI 15. http://arxivblog.com/ 16. http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailunsub?id=8632699&key=kesJ612ZsV 17. http://feeds.feedburner.com/arXivblog 18. http://feeds.feedburner.com/arXivblog ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE