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

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 …

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 …

Influential research on the negative effects of living in a disadvantaged neighborhood
assumes that its residents are socially isolated from nonpoor or “mainstream” …

The recent development of telecommunication networks is producing an unprecedented
wealth of information and, as a consequence, an increasing interest in analyzing such data …

People spend most of their time at a few key locations, such as home and work. Being able
to identify how the movements of people cluster around these “important places” is crucial …

Differential privacy has recently emerged as the de facto standard for private data release.
This makes it possible to provide strong theoretical guarantees on the privacy and utility of …

This article surveys the literature on analyses of mobile traffic collected by operators within
their network infrastructure. This is a recently emerged research field, and, apart from a few …

Home-work commuting has always attracted significant research attention because of its
impact on human mobility. One of the key assumptions in this domain of study is the …

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