Unveiling patterns of international communities in a global city using mobile phone data

EPJ Data Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-17

  Bajardi, Paolo ^a   Delfino, Matteo ^b   Panisson, André ^b   Petri, Giovanni ^b   Tizzoni, Michele ^b  

^a AizoOn Technology Consulting   (Italy)

^b ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

Entropy; Mobile phone data; Urban geography

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; ENTROPY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LARGE DATASET; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPOLOGY;

INTERNATIONAL CODES; INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY; MOBILE PHONE DATUM; OFFICIAL STATISTICS; POINTS OF INTEREST; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS; URBAN GEOGRAPHY;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

EID: 84933532710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-015-0041-5     Document Type: Article

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