Search Results - "Pentland, Alex “Sandy”"
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Inferring friendship network structure by using mobile phone data
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (08-09-2009)“…Data collected from mobile phones have the potential to provide insight into the relational dynamics of individuals. This paper compares observational data…”
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Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (30-01-2015)“…Large-scale data sets of human behavior have the potential to fundamentally transform the way we fight diseases, design cities, or perform research. Metadata,…”
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Machine behaviour
Published in Nature (London) (01-04-2019)“…Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions. Understanding the behaviour of…”
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Sociometric badges: Using sensor technology to capture new forms of collaboration
Published in Journal of organizational behavior (01-04-2012)“…This article introduces sociometrie badges as a research tool that captures with great accuracy fine-scale speech patterns and body movements among a group of…”
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Effect of COVID-19 response policies on walking behavior in US cities
Published in Nature communications (16-06-2021)“…The COVID-19 pandemic is causing mass disruption to our daily lives. We integrate mobility data from mobile devices and area-level data to study the walking…”
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Reality mining: sensing complex social systems
Published in Personal and ubiquitous computing (01-05-2006)“…We introduce a system for sensing complex social systems with data collected from 100 mobile phones over the course of 9 months. We demonstrate the ability to…”
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How Physical Proximity Shapes Complex Social Networks
Published in Scientific reports (07-12-2018)“…Social interactions among humans create complex networks and – despite a recent increase of online communication – the interactions mediated through physical…”
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Art and the science of generative AI
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (16-06-2023)“…Understanding shifts in creative work will help guide AI's impact on the media ecosystem…”
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Network Dynamics of a Financial Ecosystem
Published in Scientific reports (12-03-2020)“…Global financial crises have led to the understanding that classical econometric models are limited in comprehending financial markets in extreme conditions,…”
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Behavioral Indicators on a Mobile Sensing Platform Predict Clinically Validated Psychiatric Symptoms of Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Published in Journal of medical Internet research (16-03-2017)“…There is a critical need for real-time tracking of behavioral indicators of mental disorders. Mobile sensing platforms that objectively and noninvasively…”
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Developing public policy to advance the use of big data in health care
Published in Health Affairs (01-09-2014)“…The vast amount of health data generated and stored around the world each day offers significant opportunities for advances such as the real-time tracking of…”
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Globalization and the shifting centers of gravity of world's human dynamics: Implications for sustainability
Published in Journal of cleaner production (01-12-2019)“…World's human dynamics can be parameterized with metrics that explain the current model of economic growth and its sustainability. Changes in the world's human…”
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Bayesian collective learning emerges from heuristic social learning
Published in Cognition (01-07-2021)“…Researchers across cognitive science, economics, and evolutionary biology have studied the ubiquitous phenomenon of social learning—the use of information…”
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The predictability of consumer visitation patterns
Published in Scientific reports (18-04-2013)“…We consider hundreds of thousands of individual economic transactions to ask: how predictable are consumers in their merchant visitation patterns? Our results…”
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Sensing the "Health State" of a Community
Published in IEEE pervasive computing (01-10-2012)“…Mobile phones are a pervasive platform for opportunistic sensing of behaviors and opinions. Three studies use location and communication sensors to model…”
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Partnership Ties Shape Friendship Networks: A Dynamic Social Network Study
Published in Social forces (01-09-2015)“…Partnership ties shape friendship networks through different social forces. First, partnership ties drive clustering in friendship networks: individuals who…”
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openPDS: protecting the privacy of metadata through SafeAnswers
Published in PloS one (09-07-2014)“…The rise of smartphones and web services made possible the large-scale collection of personal metadata. Information about individuals' location, phone call…”
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Spillovers across industries and regions in China's regional economic diversification
Published in Regional studies (03-07-2021)“…Industrial diversification depends on spillovers from related industries and nearby regions, yet their interaction remains largely unclear. We study economic…”
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An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents
Published in Nature communications (08-11-2018)“…Understanding the mechanisms of network formation is central in social network analysis. Network formation has been studied in many research fields with their…”
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Segregation and polarization in urban areas
Published in Royal Society open science (01-10-2019)“…Social behaviours emerge from the exchange of information among individuals-constrained by and reciprocally influencing the structure of information flows. The…”
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