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Barchiesi, Daniele, Preis, Tobias, Bishop, Steven R. and Moat, Helen Susannah (2015) Modelling human mobility patterns using photographic data shared online. Royal Society Open Science , 2 (8). pp. 1-8. 150046. doi:10.1098/rsos.150046 ISSN 2054-5703.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150046
Abstract
Humans are inherently mobile creatures. The way we move around our environment has consequences for a wide range of problems, including the design of efficient transportation systems and the planning of urban areas. Here, we gather data about the position in space and time of about 16 000 individuals who uploaded geo-tagged images from locations within the UK to the Flickr photo-sharing website. Inspired by the theory of Lévy flights, which has previously been used to describe the statistical properties of human mobility, we design a machine learning algorithm to infer the probability of finding people in geographical locations and the probability of movement between pairs of locations. Our findings are in general agreement with official figures in the UK and on travel flows between pairs of major cities, suggesting that online data sources may be used to quantify and model large-scale human mobility patterns.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology Q Science > QA Mathematics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Migration, Internal, Online social networks, System analysis | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Royal Society Open Science | ||||||||
Publisher: | The Royal Society Publishing | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2054-5703 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 12 August 2015 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 2 | ||||||||
Number: | 8 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 8 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1-8 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 150046 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1098/rsos.150046 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 February 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 February 2016 | ||||||||
Funder: | Research Councils UK (RCUK), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | ||||||||
Grant number: | EP/K039830/1 (EPSRC) |
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