#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 in Boston and Milano brought together more than 250 researchers, practitioners and decision-makers from more 140 institutions and 30 countries. I had the pleasure to organize the 2015 edition and it was a blast to put together so much interesting talks, people, projects. Any contribution about mobile phone data is welcome, not only CDRs (call detail records). This includes, mobile location data, wifi usage, app-generated data, Twitter, Facebook, etc. The format of the conference is also flexibel: one track of short contributed talks and a simplified submission procedure (1-page abstracts). ...

#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. It has helped me to get news, information both for my personal and professional interests. But not only that, Twitter has been also the data source for our research, that helped us to investigate the relationship between human behavior in the social platform and paramount problems in our society as information propagation, unemployment, disaster damage, political opinion. As we keep on working on those subjects we have also recently extended our research to other problems like health, or climate change ...