Improved understanding of human-nature interactions is crucial to conservation science and
practice, but collecting relevant data remains challenging. Recently, social media have …

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to
human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective …

Digitization makes it easier for firms to build their innovation and marketing efforts around
consumers' personal data. In this research, we employ a privacy perspective based on …

Even though human movement and mobility patterns have a high degree of freedom and
variation, they also exhibit structural patterns due to geographic and social constraints …

Blockchain is a technology that was proposed to enable the decentralized digital currency,
Bitcoin. Since its inception, blockchain has been widely used in many other areas, including …

Anonymity in Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic currency system, is a complicated issue.
Within the system, users are identified only by public-keys. An attacker wishing to de …

Written by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for
Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the" …

The concept of contagion has steadily expanded from its original grounding in epidemic
disease to describe a vast array of processes that spread across networks, notably social …

Technological advances have led to a strong increase in the number of data collection
efforts aimed at measuring co-presence of individuals at different spatial resolutions. It is …

The advent of geographic online social networks such as Foursquare, where users
voluntarily signal their current location, opens the door to powerful studies on human …