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A tale of many cities | MIT Senseable City Lab
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Explore the spatio-temporal patterns of. Mobile phone activity in cities across the world. Start your own exploration of the data and share what you learnt from it. The Signature of Humanity project. As physical space is increasingly suffused with digital technologies, data from communication networks allow us to better understand human behavior. New meaning can be revealed within these datasets, outlining characteristic usages and dynamic patterns at both the individual and collective scale. The applica...
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MOOCs, Open Universities, and Learning Analytics in Asia
http://bodong.ch/blog/2016/11/03/trip-to-asia.html
MOOCs, Open Universities, and Learning Analytics in Asia. My October ended with a trip to Asia Beijing and Manila this time. Visiting Beijing was like going back to an ever-changing hometown, while visiting Manila (where I’ve never been before) was like venturing into a rain forest. Both very exciting! MOOCs in China: Research and Practice. Three days in Beijing was filled by a busy MOOC conference. Agenda, working meetings at the X-Learning Center. MOOC Forum for Doctoral Students. From Hong Kong Univer...
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The Urban Village
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Or, the scaling of human interactions with city size. Pop: { hoverPop number:0}. CityhoverDegree.clustPerc number:0} %. CityhoverDegree.amountPerc number:0} %. CityhoverDegree.clustPerc number:0} %. CityhoverDegree.amountPerc number:0} %. XtickFormat(6, ',.1s')(tick)}. How to explore the data. Are ordered by population size. People in the city are grouped according to the number of phone contacts. The amount of people. In the city with a certain number of contacts is displayed on the left. Is on the right.
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Tweet Bursts
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Exploring digital collective responses to major events. The more excited we are, and the more intense the flurry of messages in the collective, the shorter our messages become. Our emotional bursts become faster and more impulsive online, letting us unveil how we sense events offline - with striking mathematical regularity. The study raises a number of important questions: Are people doing this independently, or in response to seeing other short messages? Are we following the herd? Emotional tweets are s...
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