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 …

Here, we review the research we have conducted on social contagion. We describe the
methods we have employed (and the assumptions they have entailed) to examine several …

Sudden, large-scale and diffuse human migration can amplify localized outbreaks of
disease into widespread epidemics,,–. Rapid and accurate tracking of aggregate population …

Background: A longstanding barrier to progress in psychiatry, both in clinical settings and
research trials, has been the persistent difficulty of accurately and reliably quantifying …

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

Crises in financial markets affect humans worldwide. Detailed market data on trading
decisions reflect some of the complex human behavior that has led to these crises. We …

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 …

American cities today are simultaneously the same and different from Wilson's classic
portrayal in The Truly Disadvantaged ([1987] 2012), first published over 30 years ago …

Credit scoring is without a doubt one of the oldest applications of analytics. In recent years, a
multitude of sophisticated classification techniques have been developed to improve the …

Social networks show striking structural regularities,, and both theory and evidence suggest
that networks may have facilitated the development of large-scale cooperation in humans …