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Exploring the mobility of mobile phone users

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Csáji, Balázs Cs., Browet, Arnaud, Traag, V.A., Delvenne, Jean-Charles, Huens, Etienne, Van Dooren, Paul, Smoreda, Zbigniew, Blondel, Vincent D.·2013·Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Abstract

Mobile phone datasets allow for the analysis of human behavior on an unprecedented scale. The social network, temporal dynamics and mobile behavior of mobile phone users have often been analyzed independently from each other using mobile phone datasets. In this article, we explore the connections between various features of human behavior extracted from a large mobile phone dataset. Our observations are based on the analysis of communication data of 100,000 anonymized and randomly chosen individuals in a dataset of communications in Portugal. We show that clustering and principal component analysis allow for a significant dimension reduction with limited loss of information. The most important features are related to geographical location. In particular, we observe that most people spend most of their time at only a few locations. With the help of clustering methods, we then robustly identify home and office locations and compare the results with official census data. Finally, we analyze the geographic spread of users’ frequent locations and show that commuting distances can be reasonably well explained by a gravity model.

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Authors
Csáji, B. C., Browet, A., Traag, V. A., Delvenne, J.-C., Huens, E., Van Dooren, P., Smoreda, Z., & Blondel, V. D.
Venue
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-03
Volume
392
Issue
6
Pages
1459-1473
ISSN
0378-4371 (ISSN-L)
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W2004602565
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239
References
4
FWCI
30.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
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