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The impact of electrification on rural attractiveness in Senegal
Hadrien Salat, Markus Schläpfer, Zbigniew Smoreda +1
A reliable and affordable access to electricity has become one of the basic needs for humans and is, as such, at the top of the development agenda. It contributes to socio-economic…
Mobile phone data's potential for informing infrastructure planning in developing countries
Hadrien Salat, Zbigniew Smoreda, Markus Schläpfer
High quality census data are not always available in developing countries. Instead, mobile phone data are becoming a trending proxy to evaluate population density, activity and soc…
Identifying the structural discontinuities of human interactions
Sebastian Grauwin, Michael Szell, Stanislav Sobolevsky +6
The idea of a hierarchical spatial organization of society lies at the core of seminal theories in human geography that have strongly influenced our understanding of social organiz…
The anatomy of urban social networks and its implications in the searchability problem
C. Herrera-Yagüe, C. M. Schneider, T. Couronné +4
The appearance of large geolocated communication datasets has recently increased our understanding of how social networks relate to their physical space. However, many recurrently…
The elliptic model for social fluxes
C Herrera-Yagüe, CM Schneider, Z Smoreda +3
In this paper, a model (called the elliptic model) is proposed to estimate the number of social ties between two locations using population data in a similar manner to how transpor…
Exploring the Mobility of Mobile Phone Users
Balázs Cs. Csáji, Arnaud Browet, V. A. Traag +5
Mobile phone datasets allow for the analysis of human behavior on an unprecedented scale. The social network, temporal dynamics and mobile behavior of mobile phone users have often…