Contrasting social and non-social sources of predictability in human mobility

oleh: Zexun Chen, Sean Kelty, Alexandre G. Evsukoff, Brooke Foucault Welles, James Bagrow, Ronaldo Menezes, Gourab Ghoshal

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01

Deskripsi

Information about an individual’s mobility can leave traces embedded in the social network. The authors show that such traces are also present beyond the social network. Simple colocation contains predictive information about one’s mobility patterns even when the colocators have no social links. In the aggregate, non-social information can sometimes meet or exceed social information.