3 papers
physics.soc-ph2018
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…
stat.AP2018
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…
physics.soc-ph2017
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…