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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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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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