Human mobility characterization from cellular network data

Authors: Richard A. Becker, Ramón Cáceres, Karrie J. Hanson, Sibren Isaacman, Ji Meng Loh, Margaret Martonosi, James Rowland, Simon Urbanek, Alexander Varshavsky, Chris Volinsky - Communications of the ACM, CACM 2013 cited by 310

Anonymous location data from cellular phone networks sheds light on how people move around on a large scale.