Nokia MDC Atlas: An Exploration of Mobile Phone Users, Land Cover, Time, and Space

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  • André Skupin
  • Harvey J. Miller
چکیده

A total of 21 maps were produced that together form a type of atlas of the Nokia Mobile Data Challenge. Like in a traditional geographic atlas, we present a limited number of base map configurations, onto which various thematic elements are then overlaid. Two of those base maps are derived from MDC data, the third is placed in geographic space. Thematic overlays serve several purposes, including elaborating different elements from which the base map geometry had been derived, as well as linking other data to the base map.

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تاریخ انتشار 2012