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20132022
most citedFlooding through the lens of mobile phone activity

71 citations · 191 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CY2022★ 1 cited

Longitudinal Complex Dynamics of Labour Markets Reveal Increasing Polarisation

Shahad Althobaiti, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, Judy Hanwen Shen +4

In this paper we conduct a longitudinal analysis of the structure of labour markets in the US over 7 decades of technological, economic and policy change. We make use of network sc…

physics.soc-ph2022

The Dynamic Resilience of Urban Labour Networks

Xiangnan Feng, Alex Rutherford

Understanding and potentially predicting or even controlling urban labour markets represents a great challenge for workers and policy makers alike. Cities are effective engines of…

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-ph2020★ 1 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★ 2 cited

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…