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The agglomeration and dispersion dichotomy of human settlements on Earth
Emanuele Strano, Filippo Simini, Marco De Nadai +2
Human settlements on Earth are scattered in a multitude of shapes, sizes and spatial arrangements. These patterns are often not random but a result of complex geographical, cultura…
Social media usage reveals how regions recover after natural disaster
Robert Eyre, Flavia De Luca, Filippo Simini
The challenge of nowcasting and forecasting the effect of natural disasters (e.g. earthquakes, floods, hurricanes) on assets, people and society is of primary importance for assess…
Scikit-mobility: a Python library for the analysis, generation and risk assessment of mobility data
Luca Pappalardo, Filippo Simini, Gianni Barlacchi +1
The last decade has witnessed the emergence of massive mobility data sets, such as tracks generated by GPS devices, call detail records, and geo-tagged posts from social media plat…
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…
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…