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Large language models create an uneven informational layer over cities
Lin Chen, Guangyuan Weng, Esteban Moro
Large language models (LLMs) are emerging as a new informational layer over cities, shaping which places people discover, consider, and ultimately visit. Yet little is known about…
Correcting temporal bias in mobility data using time-use surveys
Sarah A. Sanchez, Hamish Gibbs, Takahiro Yabe +2
GPS mobility data is a valuable source of behavioral measurement which is subject to systematic biases including the over- or under-representation of demographic groups, and variat…
One rule does not fit all: deviations from universality in human mobility modeling
Ludovico Napoli, Márton Karsai, Esteban Moro
The accurate modeling of individual movement in cities has significant implications for policy decisions across various sectors. Existing research emphasizes the universality of hu…
Temporal clustering of social interactions trades-off disease spreading and knowledge diffusion
Giulia Cencetti, Lorenzo Lucchini, Gabriele Santin +4
Non-pharmaceutical measures such as preventive quarantines, remote working, school and workplace closures, lockdowns, etc. have shown effectivenness from an epidemic control perspe…
AI exposure predicts unemployment risk
Morgan Frank, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Esteban Moro
Is artificial intelligence (AI) disrupting jobs and creating unemployment? Despite many attempts to quantify occupations' exposure to AI, inconsistent validation obfuscates the rel…
Adverse weather amplifies social media activity
Kelton Minor, Esteban Moro, Nick Obradovich
Humanity spends an increasing proportion of its time interacting online. Scholars are intensively investigating the societal drivers and resultant impacts of this collective shift…
Home-to-school pedestrian mobility GPS data from a citizen science experiment in the Barcelona area
Ferran Larroya, Ofelia Díaz, Oleguer Segarra +4
The analysis of pedestrian GPS datasets is fundamental to further advance on the study and the design of walkable cities. The highest resolution GPS data can characterize micro-mob…
The unequal effects of the health-economy tradeoff during the COVID-19 pandemic
Marco Pangallo, Alberto Aleta, R. Maria del Rio Chanona +9
The potential tradeoff between health outcomes and economic impact has been a major challenge in the policy making process during the COVID-19 pandemic. Epidemic-economic models de…
Identifying latent activity behaviors and lifestyles using mobility data to describe urban dynamics
Yanni Yang, Alex Pentland, Esteban Moro
Urbanization and its problems require an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of urban dynamics, especially the complex and diversified lifestyles in modern cities. Digitally a…
Diversity beyond density: experienced social mixing of urban streets
Zhuangyuan Fan, Tianyu Su, Maoran Sun +4
Urban density, in the form of residents' and visitors' concentration, is long considered to foster diverse exchanges of interpersonal knowledge and skills, which are intrinsic to s…
Behavioral changes during the pandemic worsened income diversity of urban encounters
Takahiro Yabe, Bernardo Garcia Bulle Bueno, Xiaowen Dong +2
Diversity of physical encounters and social interactions in urban environments are known to spur economic productivity and innovation in cities, while also to foster social capital…
Social Learning and the Accuracy-Risk Trade-off in the Wisdom of the Crowd
Dhaval Adjodah, Yan Leng, Shi Kai Chong +3
How do we design and deploy crowdsourced prediction platforms for real-world applications where risk is an important dimension of prediction performance? To answer this question, w…
Segregated interactions in urban and online space
Xiaowen Dong, Alfredo J. Morales, Eaman Jahani +6
Urban income segregation is a widespread phenomenon that challenges societies across the globe. Classical studies on segregation have largely focused on the geographic distribution…
Weather impacts expressed sentiment
Patrick Baylis, Nick Obradovich, Yury Kryvasheyeu +5
We conduct the largest ever investigation into the relationship between meteorological conditions and the sentiment of human expressions. To do this, we employ over three and a hal…
From seconds to months: multi-scale dynamics of mobile telephone calls
Jari Saramaki, Esteban Moro
Big Data on electronic records of social interactions allow approaching human behaviour and sociality from a quantitative point of view with unforeseen statistical power. Mobile te…
Daily rhythms in mobile telephone communication
Talayeh Aledavood, Eduardo López, Sam G. B. Roberts +4
Circadian rhythms are known to be important drivers of human activity and the recent availability of electronic records of human behaviour has provided fine-grained data of tempora…
Social media fingerprints of unemployment
Alejandro Llorente, Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Manuel Cebrian +1
Recent wide-spread adoption of electronic and pervasive technologies has enabled the study of human behavior at an unprecedented level, uncovering universal patterns underlying hum…
Performance of Social Network Sensors During Hurricane Sandy
Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Esteban Moro +2
Information flow during catastrophic events is a critical aspect of disaster management. Modern communication platforms, in particular online social networks, provide an opportunit…
Time allocation in social networks: correlation between social structure and human communication dynamics
Giovanna Miritello, Rubén Lara, Esteban Moro
Recent research has shown the deep impact of the dynamics of human interactions (or temporal social networks) on the spreading of information, opinion formation, etc. In general, t…
The predictability of consumer visitation patterns
Coco Krumme, Alejandro Llorente, Manuel Cebrián +3
We consider hundreds of thousands of individual economic transactions to ask: how predictable are consumers in their merchant visitation patterns? Our results suggest that, in the…
Branching Dynamics of Viral Information Spreading
José Luis Iribarren, Esteban Moro
Despite its importance for rumors or innovations propagation, peer-to-peer collaboration, social networking or Marketing, the dynamics of information spreading is not well understo…
Social features of online networks: the strength of intermediary ties in online social media
Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz, Jose J. Ramasco, Esteban Moro +2
An increasing fraction of today social interactions occur using online social media as communication channels. Recent worldwide events, such as social movements in Spain or revolts…
The dynamical strength of social ties in information spreading
Giovanna Miritello, Esteban Moro, Rubén Lara
We investigate the temporal patterns of human communication and its influence on the spreading of information in social networks. The analysis of mobile phone calls of 20 million p…
Patterns of Individual Shopping Behavior
Coco Krumme, Manuel Cebrian, Alex Pentland
Much of economic theory is built on observations of aggregate, rather than individual, behavior. Here, we present novel findings on human shopping patterns at the resolution of a s…