An analytical framework to nowcast well-being using mobile phone data

L Pappalardo, M Vanhoof, L Gabrielli… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
An intriguing open question is whether measurements derived from Big Data recording
human activities can yield high-fidelity proxies of socio-economic development and well …

Reconstructing human activities via coupling mobile phone data with location-based social networks

L Huang, F Xia, H Chen, B Hu, X Zhou, C Li… - Travel behaviour and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the era of big data, the ubiquity of location-aware portable devices provides an
unprecedented opportunity to understand inhabitants' behavior and their interactions with …

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

A Bogomolov, B Lepri, J Staiano, E Letouzé, N Oliver… - Big data, 2015 - liebertpub.com
The wealth of information provided by real-time streams of data has paved the way for life-
changing technological advancements, improving the quality of life of people in many ways …

Mobile communication signatures of unemployment

A Almaatouq, F Prieto-Castrillo, A Pentland - Social Informatics: 8th …, 2016 - Springer
The mapping of populations socio-economic well-being is highly constrained by the logistics
of censuses and surveys. Consequently, spatially detailed changes across scales of days …

[PDF][PDF] Measuring economic activity in China with mobile big data

L Dong, S Chen, Y Cheng, Z Wu, C Li, H Wu - EPJ Data Science, 2017 - Springer
Emerging trends in the use of smartphones, online mapping applications, and social media,
in addition to the geo-located data they generate, provide opportunities to trace users' socio …

[PDF][PDF] Quantifying socio-economic indicators in developing countries from mobile phone communication data: applications to Côte d'Ivoire

H Mao, X Shuai, YY Ahn, J Bollen - EPJ Data Science, 2015 - Springer
The widespread adoption of mobile devices that record the communications, social
relations, and movements of billions of individuals in great detail presents unique …

Mobile phone indicators and their relation to the socioeconomic organisation of cities

C Cottineau, M Vanhoof - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019 - mdpi.com
Thanks to the use of geolocated big data in computational social science research, the
spatial and temporal heterogeneity of human activities is increasingly being revealed …

COVID-19 is spatial: Ensuring that mobile Big Data is used for social good

A Poom, O Järv, M Zook, T Toivonen - Big Data & Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The mobility restrictions related to COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in the biggest
disruption to individual mobilities in modern times. The crisis is clearly spatial in nature, and …

On the relation between socio-economic status and physical mobility

V Frias-Martinez, J Virseda-Jerez… - Information …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In emerging economies, the socio-economic status is a key element to evaluate social
improvement as it provides an understanding of the population's access to housing …

New approaches to human mobility: Using mobile phones for demographic research

JRB Palmer, TJ Espenshade, F Bartumeus… - …, 2013 - read.dukeupress.edu
This article explores new methods for gathering and analyzing spatially rich demographic
data using mobile phones. It describes a pilot study (the Human Mobility Project) in which …