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Mobile phone data and COVID-19: Missing an opportunity?
Nuria Oliver, Emmanuel Letouzé, Harald Sterly +21
This paper describes how mobile phone data can guide government and public health authorities in determining the best course of action to control the COVID-19 pandemic and in asses…
Understanding individual behaviour: from virtual to physical patterns
Marco De Nadai, Bruno Lepri, Nuria Oliver
As "Big Data" has become pervasive, an increasing amount of research has connected the dots between human behaviour in the offline and online worlds. Consequently, researchers have…
Apps, Places and People: strategies, limitations and trade-offs in the physical and digital worlds
Marco De Nadai, Angelo Cardoso, Antonio Lima +2
Cognition has been found to constrain several aspects of human behaviour, such as the number of friends and the number of favourite places a person keeps stable over time. This lim…
The economic value of neighborhoods: Predicting real estate prices from the urban environment
Marco De Nadai, Bruno Lepri
Housing costs have a significant impact on individuals, families, businesses, and governments. Recently, online companies such as Zillow have developed proprietary systems that pro…
Is social capital associated with synchronization in human communication? An analysis of Italian call records and measures of civic engagement
Marco Mamei, Francesca Pancotto, Marco De Nadai +4
Social capital has been studied in economics, sociology and political science as one of the key elements that promote the development of modern societies. It can be defined as the…
Are Safer Looking Neighborhoods More Lively? A Multimodal Investigation into Urban Life
Marco De Nadai, Radu L. Vieriu, Gloria Zen +6
Policy makers, urban planners, architects, sociologists, and economists are interested in creating urban areas that are both lively and safe. But are the safety and liveliness of n…
The Death and Life of Great Italian Cities: A Mobile Phone Data Perspective
Marco De Nadai, Jacopo Staiano, Roberto Larcher +3
The Death and Life of Great American Cities was written in 1961 and is now one of the most influential book in city planning. In it, Jane Jacobs proposed four conditions that promo…