Posted by: blogtriana
Tags:
map, MIT, mobile
Posted date:
July 5, 2011
Here comes the latest project managed by Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT Senseable City lab: to look at the relationships between regions from the phone datas.
"The social connections woven across the United States can be used to define communities. One can ask whether the communities defined purely by social interactions coincide with the administrative boundaries, for example state boundaries? Remarkably, this is not always the case!
According to the Connecting States of America project, sister states include Alabama and Georgia—at least in terms of telephone calls. The data changes when you look...
