A Theoretical Basis for Entropy-Scaling Effects in Human Mobility Patterns.

ABSTRACT: Characterizing how people move through space has been an important component of many disciplines. With the advent of automated data collection through GPS and other location sensing systems, researchers have the opportunity to examine human mobility at spatio-temporal resolution heretofore impossible. However, the copious and complex data collected through these logging systems can be difficult for humans to fully exploit, leading many researchers to propose novel metrics for encapsulating movement patterns in succinct and useful ways. A particularly salient proposed metric is the mobility entropy rate of the string representing the sequence of locations visited by an individual. However, mobility entropy rate is not scale invariant: entropy rate calculations based on measurements of the s

SUBMITTER: Osgood ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5003381 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature