Exposing non-geographical aspects of mobility using location-based social networks

Alejandro Llorente Pinto, Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento Manuel Cebrián, NICTA Manuel García-Herranz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Esteban Moro, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Urban Beers, Barcelona, 2013

Geolocated Twitter data

•  5 months of data

•  Continental part of Spain

•  146 million of tweets

City Flows Graph

City Flows Graph

The Gravity Model

High correlation between observed flows and the model and low MAE

The Gravity Model

Are model failures just statistical fluctuations or...?

The Gravity Model Everything seems nice but...

Are model failures just statistical fluctuations or...?

Thank you very much!

Urban Beers, Barcelona, 2013

Alejandro Llorente Pinto, Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento Manuel Cebrián, NICTA Manuel García-Herranz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Esteban Moro, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid