A survey of results on mobile phone datasets analysis

EPJ Data Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-55

  Blondel, Vincent D ^a   Decuyper, Adeline ^a   Krings, Gautier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Real Impact Analytics   (Belgium)

Author keywords

big data analysis; data mining; geographical networks; mobile phone datasets; social networks; temporal networks

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; DATA MINING; MOBILE PHONES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS; TELEPHONE CIRCUITS; TELEPHONE SETS;

GEOGRAPHICAL NETWORKS; MOBILE PHONE DATASETS; PERSONAL MOBILITY; SECURITY AND PRIVACY ISSUES; STAND -ALONE; TEMPORAL NETWORKS;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84958776017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-015-0046-0     Document Type: Review

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