Social physics

M Jusup, P Holme, K Kanazawa, M Takayasu, I Romić… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring objective and subjective well-being: dimensions and data sources

V Voukelatou, L Gabrielli, I Miliou, S Cresci… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Well-being is an important value for people's lives, and it could be considered as an index of
societal progress. Researchers have suggested two main approaches for the overall …

Internet use and well-being: A survey and a theoretical framework

F Castellacci, V Tveito - Research policy, 2018 - Elsevier
How does Internet use affect well-being? This paper presents a survey of the literature
investigating this question, and it develops a framework to analyze both positive effects and …

[PDF][PDF] A survey of results on mobile phone datasets analysis

VD Blondel, A Decuyper, G Krings - EPJ data science, 2015 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-source dataset of urban life in the city of Milan and the Province of Trentino

G Barlacchi, M De Nadai, R Larcher, A Casella… - Scientific data, 2015 - nature.com
The study of socio-technical systems has been revolutionized by the unprecedented amount
of digital records that are constantly being produced by human activities such as accessing …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal data mining: a survey on challenges and open problems

A Hamdi, K Shaban, A Erradi, A Mohamed… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2022 - Springer
Spatiotemporal data mining (STDM) discovers useful patterns from the dynamic interplay
between space and time. Several available surveys capture STDM advances and report a …

[图书][B] Criminal futures: Predictive policing and everyday police work

S Egbert, M Leese - 2021 - library.oapen.org
This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments
around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts …

The death and life of great Italian cities: a mobile phone data perspective

M De Nadai, J Staiano, R Larcher, N Sebe… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
The Death and Life of Great American Cities was written in 1961 and is now one of the most
influential book in city planning. In it, Jane Jacobs proposed four conditions that promote life …

Combining disparate data sources for improved poverty prediction and mapping

N Pokhriyal, DC Jacques - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
More than 330 million people are still living in extreme poverty in Africa. Timely, accurate,
and spatially fine-grained baseline data are essential to determining policy in favor of …

Statistical physics of crime: A review

MR D'Orsogna, M Perc - Physics of life reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Containing the spread of crime in urban societies remains a major challenge. Empirical
evidence suggests that, if left unchecked, crimes may be recurrent and proliferate. On the …