Computing Cost-Effective Census Maps From Cell Phone Traces
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Census maps contain important socio-economic information regarding the population of a country. Computing these maps is critical given that policy makers often times make important decisions based upon such information. However, the compilation of census maps requires extensive resources and becomes highly expensive, especially for emerging economies with limited budgets. On the other hand, the ubiquitous presence of cell phones, both in developed and emerging economies, is generating large amounts of digital footprints. These footprints can reveal human behavioral traits related to specific socio-economic characteristics. In this paper we propose a new tool, CenCell, to approximate census information from behavioral patterns collected through cell phone call records. The tool provides affordable census information by accurately classifying socio-economic levels from cell phone call records with classification rates
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