Moves on the street: Classifying crime hotspots using aggregated anonymized data on people dynamics

Big Data

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 148-158

  Bogomolov, Andrey ^a   Lepri, Bruno ^b   Staiano, Jacopo ^c   Letouzé, Emmanuel ^d,e   Oliver, Nuria ^f   Pianesi, Fabio ^b   Pentland, Alex ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Research Affiliate   (United States)

^f TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^g MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

big data analytics; crime; data mining; predictive analytics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991832961     PISSN: 21676461     EISSN: 2167647X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/big.2014.0054     Document Type: Article

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