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Zipf's and Taylor's Laws
Charlotte James, Sandro Azaele, Amos Maritan +1
Zipf's law states that the frequency of an observation with a given value is inversely proportional to the square of that value; Taylor's law, instead, describes the scaling betwee…
Prediction of next career moves from scientific profiles
Charlotte James, Luca Pappalardo, Alina Sirbu +1
Changing institution is a scientist's key career decision, which plays an important role in education, scientific productivity, and the generation of scientific knowledge. Yet, our…
Human Mobility: Models and Applications
Hugo Barbosa-Filho, Marc Barthelemy, Gourab Ghoshal +7
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective mobility…
Discovering the laws of urbanisation
Filippo Simini, Charlotte James
In 2012 the world's population exceeded 7 billion, and since 2008 the number of individuals living in urban areas has surpassed that of rural areas. This is the result of an overal…