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Botta, Federico, Moat, Helen Susannah and Preis, Tobias (2015) Quantifying crowd size with mobile phone and Twitter data. Royal Society Open Science , Volume 2 (Number 5). p. 150162. doi:10.1098/rsos.150162 ISSN 2054-5703.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150162
Abstract
Being able to infer the number of people in a specific area is of extreme importance for the avoidance of crowd disasters and to facilitate emergency evacuations. Here, using a football stadium and an airport as case studies, we present evidence of a strong relationship between the number of people in restricted areas and activity recorded by mobile phone providers and the online service Twitter. Our findings suggest that data generated through our interactions with mobile phone networks and the Internet may allow us to gain valuable measurements of the current state of society.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Online social networks -- Data processing, Crowds | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Royal Society Open Science | ||||||||
Publisher: | The Royal Society Publishing | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2054-5703 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 27 May 2015 | ||||||||
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Volume: | Volume 2 | ||||||||
Number: | Number 5 | ||||||||
Page Range: | p. 150162 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1098/rsos.150162 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 February 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 February 2016 | ||||||||
Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Research Councils UK (RCUK) | ||||||||
Grant number: | EP/E501311/1 (EPSRC), EP/K039830/1 (RCUK) |
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