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Quantifying crowd size with mobile phone and Twitter data

dc.contributor.authorBotta, F
dc.contributor.authorMoat, HS
dc.contributor.authorPreis, T
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-23T09:47:50Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-01
dc.description.abstractBeing able to infer the number of people in a specific area is of extreme importance for the avoidance of crowd disasters and to facilitate emergency evacuations. Here, using a football stadium and an airport as case studies, we present evidence of a strong relationship between the number of people in restricted areas and activity recorded by mobile phone providers and the online service Twitter. Our findings suggest that data generated through our interactions with mobile phone networks and the Internet may allow us to gain valuable measurements of the current state of society.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 2 (5)en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1098/rsos.150162
dc.identifier.grantnumberEP/E501311/1en_GB
dc.identifier.grantnumberEP/K039830/1en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/122099
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherThe Royal Societyen_GB
dc.rights2015 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.en_GB
dc.subjectdata scienceen_GB
dc.subjectcomputational social scienceen_GB
dc.subjectcomplex systemsen_GB
dc.titleQuantifying crowd size with mobile phone and Twitter dataen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2020-07-23T09:47:50Z
dc.identifier.issn2054-5703
dc.descriptionThis is the final published version, also available from The Royal Society via the DOI in this record.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalRoyal Society Open Scienceen_GB
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2015-05-01
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2015-05-01
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2020-07-23T09:45:25Z
refterms.versionFCDVoR
refterms.dateFOA2020-07-23T09:47:57Z
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2015 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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