Quantifying crowd size with mobile phone and Twitter data

Being able to infer the number of people in a specific area is of extreme importance for the avoidance of crowd disasters and to facilitate emergency evacuations. Here, using a football stadium and an airport as case studies, we present evidence of a strong relationship between the number of people...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Botta, Federico, Moat, Helen Susannah, Preis, Tobias
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society Publishing 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4453255/