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Posted: May 15, 2009 |
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Researchers are using information from cell phone records to answer questions about where people travel and the social networks that connect them. Along the way, they're creating visual images that illustrate our cell-phone-linked world.
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| Cell phone records can provide information about callers' location, because calls are always routed through the nearest cell phone tower. Researcher Albert-Laszlo Barabasi has analyzed the anonymous records of more than 100,000 cell phone users to try to understand patterns of human motion. |
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| Photo Credit: Flickr/Evlin During |
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