Albert-Laszlo Barabasi: He knows your route (Wired UK) - 0 views
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[pop-up] urbain on 26 Dec 13"This article was taken from the June issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online Human habits -- what we do, when, where and how often -- are the realm of psychology and economics. But physics? "Good science usually starts with data," says 43-yearold Albert-László Barabási, a physicist at Northeastern University in Boston. "Whether you study atoms or people, measuring things is the first step to understanding." Barabási analyses location data from mobile phone users, mapping the daily movements of millions of people over months. For his most recent study, he and his team studied data from 50,000 people randomly pulled from a research pool of ten million. They concluded that human mobility patterns are very regular -- up to 93 percent predictable."