Quantifying crowd size with mobile phone and Twitter data

Being able to infer the number of people in a specific area is of extreme importance for the avoidance of crowd disasters and to facilitate emergency evacuations. Here, using a football stadium and an airport as case studies, we present evidence of a strong relationship between the number of people...

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Main Authors: Federico Botta, Helen Susannah Moat, Tobias Preis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2015-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.150162