Shaping Cities of the Future using Mobile Data
Chris VolinskyAT&T Labs-Research
@statpumpkin
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Mapping potholes in Boston
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courtesy flickr/hilarymason
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Hold for MTS
Interactive visualization done using nanocubes.net
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No Content Ever
Anonymize (always)
Aggregate (when possible)
Reduce granularity
Principle of Least Privilege
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Call A A->B Call B
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Earth Mover Distance (EMD)
amount of mass moved
distance mass moved
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0:10:1 2 19.8%
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0:1 3 18.4%
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0:1 5 22.2%
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0:1 6 15.9%
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Clustering Users
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Use real data to create synthetic data that has the same statistical properties.
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