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20162021
most citedImpossible by Conventional Means: Ten Years on from the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge

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physics.soc-ph2021

The Network Limits of Infectious Disease Control via Occupation-Based Targeting

Demetris Avraam, Nick Obradovich, Niccoló Pescetelli +2

Policymakers commonly employ non-pharmaceutical interventions to manage the scale and severity of pandemics. Of non-pharmaceutical interventions, social distancing policies -- desi…

physics.soc-ph20201 cited

Impossible by Conventional Means: Ten Years on from the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge

Alex Rutherford, Manuel Cebrian, Inho Hong +1

Ten years ago, DARPA launched the 'Network Challenge', more commonly known as the 'DARPA Red Balloon Challenge'. Ten red weather balloons were fixed at unknown locations in the US.…

econ.GN2020

China's First Workforce Skill Taxonomy

Weipan Xu, Xiaozhen Qin, Xun Li +5

China is the world's second largest economy. After four decades of economic miracles, China's economy is transitioning into an advanced, knowledge-based economy. Yet, we still lack…

cs.CY2018

Mapping the Privacy-Utility Tradeoff in Mobile Phone Data for Development

Alejandro Noriega-Campero, Alex Rutherford, Oren Lederman +2

Today's age of data holds high potential to enhance the way we pursue and monitor progress in the fields of development and humanitarian action. We study the relation between data…

cs.SI2016

Twitter as a Source of Global Mobility Patterns for Social Good

Mark Dredze, Manuel García-Herranz, Alex Rutherford +1

Data on human spatial distribution and movement is essential for understanding and analyzing social systems. However existing sources for this data are lacking in various ways; dif…