Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions.
Do regional boundaries defined by governments respect the more natural ways that people interact across space? This paper proposes a novel, fine-grained approach to regional delineation, based on analyzing networks of billions of individual human transactions. Given a geographical area and some meas...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-12-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2999538?pdf=render |