In this paper, we review some advances made recently in the study of mobile phone
datasets. This area of research has emerged a decade ago, with the increasing availability …

From one of the world's leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea
flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social …

A key challenge of data-driven social science is the gathering of high quality multi-
dimensional datasets. A second challenge relates to design and execution of structured …

Se la rivoluzione dei big data ha un genio che la presiede, questi è certamente Alex
Pentland. In anni di esperimenti innovativi ha distillato scoperte che oggi spalancano le …

Analysis of an unusually detailed telephone call data set—a month of nearly all mobile and
landline phone calls placed during August 2005 the United Kingdom—allows us to identify …

This book chapter is a review of mobile sensing technologies and computational methods
for collective intelligence. We discuss the application of mobile sensing to understand …

Every day, millions of customers of mobile phone operators communicate via phone calls,
SMS or MMS. These interactions can be represented by a large network, where nodes …

A key challenge of data-driven social science is the gathering of high quality multi-
dimensional datasets. A second challenge relates to the design and execution of social …

Like other social systems, corporations comprise networks of individuals that share
information and create interdependencies among their actions. The properties of these …

Abstract The current" Big Data" boom coincides with the realization that data entities across
systems are not independent. In order to allow realistic discovery in many domains like …