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   [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

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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
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   7. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=y5ryWI
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