Measuring economic activity in China with mobile big data

EPJ Data Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Dong, Lei ^a,b,c   Chen, Sicong ^b   Cheng, Yunsheng ^b   Wu, Zhengwei ^b   Li, Chao ^b   Wu, Haishan ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BAIDU INC   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

complex systems; computational social science; economic activity; mobile data

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ECONOMICS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE; CONSUMER TRENDS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; ECONOMIC DYNAMICS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; MOBILE DATA; SERVICE SECTORS; SPATIAL-TEMPORAL DATA;

BIG DATA;

EID: 85033497874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-017-0125-5     Document Type: Article

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