Data for Development: the D4D Challenge on Mobile Phone Data

The Orange “Data for Development” (D4D) challenge is an open data challenge on anonymous call patterns of Orange’s mobile phone users in Ivory Coast. The goal of the challenge is to help address society development questions in novel ways by contributing to the socio-economic development and well-being of the Ivory Coast population. Participants to the challenge are given access to four mobile phone datasets and the purpose of this paper is to describe the four datasets. The website http://www.d4d.orange.com contains more information about the participation rules. The datasets are based on anonymized Call Detail Records (CDR) of phone calls and SMS exchanges between five million of Orange’s customers in Ivory Coast between December 1, 2011 and April 28, 2012. The datasets are: (a) antenna-to-antenna traffic on an hourly basis, (b) individual trajectories for 50,000 customers for two week time windows with antenna location information, (3) individual trajectories for 500,000 customers over the entire observation period with sub-prefecture location information, and (4) a sample of communication graphs for 5,000 customers. The geofast web interface www.geofast.net for the visualisation of mobile phone communications (countries available: France, Belgium, Ivory Coast). ∗University of Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. [email protected] †Orange Labs, France 1 ar X iv :1 21 0. 01 37 v2 [ cs .C Y ] 2 8 Ja n 20 13