Quantifying crowd size with mobile phone and Twitter data.
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SUBMITTER: Botta F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4453255 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Quantifying crowd size with mobile phone and Twitter data.
Botta Federico F Moat Helen Susannah HS Preis Tobias T
Royal Society open science 20150527 5
Being 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 ...[more]
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