The geography of taste: analyzing cell-phone mobility and social events

The geography of taste: analyzing cell-phone mobility and social events

This paper deals with the analysis of crowd mobility during special events. We analyze nearly 1 million cell-phone traces and associate their destinations with social events. We show that the origins of people attending an event are strongly correlated to the type of event, with implications in city...

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Main Authors: Calabrese, Francesco (Contributor), Liu, Liang (Contributor), Ratti, Carlo (Contributor), Pereira, Francisco (Author), Di Lorenzo, Giusy (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. SENSEable City Laboratory (Contributor), Pereira, Francisco C. (Contributor), Lorenzo, Giusy Di (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Springer-Verlag, 2013-02-15T19:37:28Z.
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