Social Urban Networks at NetSI (Northeastern) I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University as a Professor starting January 2024! As a researcher in Social Urban Networks (SUN) it is a … ...
#resilience #Labour Markets Factors Improving Labor Resiliency in U.S. Cities. What makes urban labor markets more resilient? This is the question at the heart of a new study we have published in Nature Communications. We drew on prior network modeling research to map the job … ...
#Segregation #visualization #Urban Science #inequality The Atlas of Inequality Segregation is hurting our societies and specially our cities. But economic inequality isn’t just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurants, stores, and other places we visit in cities are all … ...
#Netmob #Mobile Phone data #Conferences Netmob 2019 Another edition of Netmob is happening this year 2019. NetMob is the primary conference in the analysis of mobile phone datasets in social, urban, societal and industrial problems. Previous editions … ...
#Twitter #R #Social Networks Growing old in Twitter I started using Twitter more than 10 years ago (!). I open an account in this social network in 2008 and although I was not using it too much for the first year, I become a frequent user after that. … ...
Important relationships are not bursty What are the properties of a long-lasting relationship? This important question as intrigued the social scientists during the last decades and has triggered numerous publications, surveys and … ...
Network Science for kids! One of my favorite activities is to teach my field or research (network science) to high-schoolers. We (together with my colleague Cristina Brändle) have been doing that from our university to the … ...
#complexity #social networks Searching for someone From the “Small World Experiment” to the “Red Balloon Challenge,” and beyond ...
More people, more fun: The scaling of events in cities This is a recent article publish in Medium.com by David Martín-Corral, Manuel Cebrián and myself in which we analyze the super-scaling of touristic attraction (number of events) with population. … ...
2015 year in review 2015 has been an amazing year both on the professional and personal grounds. Here are some of the main things that happened this year: ...