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Barchiesi, Daniele, Moat, Helen Susannah, Alis, Christian M., Bishop, Steven R. and Preis, Tobias (2015) Quantifying international travel flows using Flickr. PLoS One, 10 (7). pp. 1-8. e0128470. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128470 ISSN 1932-6203.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128470
Abstract
Online social media platforms are opening up new opportunities to analyse human behaviour on an unprecedented scale. In some cases, the fast, cheap measurements of human behaviour gained from these platforms may offer an alternative to gathering such measurements using traditional, time consuming and expensive surveys. Here, we use geotagged photographs uploaded to the photo-sharing website Flickr to quantify international travel flows, by extracting the location of users and inferring trajectories to track their movement across time. We find that Flickr based estimates of the number of visitors to the United Kingdom significantly correlate with the official estimates released by the UK Office for National Statistics, for 28 countries for which official estimates are calculated. Our findings underline the potential for indicators of key aspects of human behaviour, such as mobility, to be generated from data attached to the vast volumes of photographs posted online.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software | ||||||||
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): | International travel, Online social networks | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS One | ||||||||
Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1932-6203 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 6 July 2015 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 10 | ||||||||
Number: | 7 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 8 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1-8 | ||||||||
Article Number: | e0128470 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0128470 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 December 2015 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 December 2015 | ||||||||
Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | ||||||||
Grant number: | EP/K039830/1 (EPSRC) |
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