Redrawing the Map of Great Britain from a Network of Human Interactions

Do regional boundaries defined by governments respect the more natural ways that people interact across space? This paper proposes a novel, fine-grained approach to regional delineation, based on analyzing networks of billions of individual human transactions. Given a geographical area and some meas...

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Published in:PloS one 2010-12, Vol.5 (12), p.e14248
Main Authors: Ratti, Carlo, Sobolevsky, Stanislav, Calabrese, Francesco, Andris, Clio, Reades, Jonathan, Martino, Mauro, Claxton, Rob, Strogatz, Steven H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Cellular telephones
Cities
Communication
Communications networks
Computer Science/Applications
Dialects
Disruption
Geography
Humans
Inhabitants
Mathematics/Algorithms
Partitioning
Physics/Interdisciplinary Physics
Regional analysis
Scotland
Social Behavior
Social networks
Telecommunications
United Kingdom
Wales
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