Crowd-mapping With Cell Phones

Cellular data can reveal where people spend their days

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Crowd-mapping With Cell Phones
Sources: Ramón Cáceres, James Rowland, Christopher Small, and Simon Urbanek, “Exploring the Use of Urban Greenspace through Cellular Network Activity”; Fabio Manfredini, Paola Pucci, and Paolo Tagliolato, “Deriving Mobility Practices and Patterns from Mobile Phone Data”

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