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4 August 2008
Over 3 billion people carry mobile telephones, which automatically capture behavioral data and store it in service provider databases around the world. The different types of captured data can provide insight into different cultures. I have an upcoming article in IEEE Intelligent Systems describing how examples from a variety of societies and hundreds of millions of individuals illustrate how phones can serve as a cultural lens, improving our understanding of social networks, outlier events, and a culture’s pace of life. It is a bit of an overview piece describing mostly future work, but hopefully it provides a good starting point for discussion.
Nathan Eagle. Behavioral Inference Across Cultures: Using Telephones as a
Cultural Lens, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2008, Vol 23 (4), pp. 60-62. PDF
Posted by Nathan Eagle at August 4, 2008 10:05 AM
Interesting paper, great resource. Thank you.
One correction: on page 4 you state that in 2004 the Red Sox won their first World Series. It was merely their first since 1918.
Posted by: Andy Shaindlin at August 5, 2008 12:35 AM
Great paper, thank you so much.
Somehow, the link doesn't (seem to) work (for me) if I click through my RSS reader. It's OK from the webpage, though.
Posted by: Bertil at August 5, 2008 8:52 AM