Correcting temporal bias in mobility data using time-use surveys

Sanchez, Sarah A. and Gibbs, Hamish and Yabe, Takahiro and O'Brien, Daniel T. and Moro, Esteban

arXiv (2026) Full text

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Impact of federated data with local differential privacy for human mobility modeling

Gibbs, Hamish and Musolesi, Mirco and Cheshire, James and Eggo, Rosalind M.

EPJ Data Science, Vol. 15, pp. 17 (2026) Full text

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Urban mobility network centrality predicts social resilience

Chen, Lin and Xu, Fengli and Moro, Esteban and Hui, Pan and Li, Yong and Evans, James

arXiv (2026) Full text

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AI exposure predicts unemployment risk: A new approach to technology-driven job loss

Frank, Morgan R and Ahn, Yong-Yeol and Moro, Esteban

PNAS Nexus, Vol. 4, pp. pgaf107 (2025) Full text

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Behaviour-based dependency networks between places shape urban economic resilience

Yabe, Takahiro and García Bulle Bueno, Bernardo and Frank, Morgan R. and Pentland, Alex and Moro, Esteban

Nature Human Behaviour, Vol. 9, pp. 496--506 (2025) Full text

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Beyond Distance: Mobility Neural Embeddings Reveal Visible and Invisible Barriers in Urban Space

Weng, Guangyuan and Kim, Minsuk and Ahn, Yong-Yeol and Moro, Esteban

arXiv (2025) Full text

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Community-centric modeling of citation dynamics explains collective citation patterns in science, law, and patents

Kojaku, Sadamori and Mahari, Robert and Lera, Sandro Claudio and Moro, Esteban and Pentland, Alex and Ahn, Yong-Yeol

2025 Full text

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Detecting bias in algorithms used to disseminate information in social networks and mitigating it using multiobjective optimization

Sekara, Vedran and Dotu, Ivan and Cebrian, Manuel and Moro, Esteban and Garcia−Herranz, Manuel

PNAS Nexus, Vol. 4, pp. pgaf291 (2025) Full text

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Enhancing Labor Markets' Resilience in Preparation for the Net-Zero Transition and New Technologies

del Rio-Chanona, R. Maria and Frank, Morgan and Mealy, Penny and Moro, Esteban and Nedelkoska, Ljubica

2025 Full text

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Future-proofing cities against negative city mobility and public health impacts of impending natural hazards: a system dynamics modelling study

Garcia, Leandro and Hafezi, Mehdi and Lima, Larissa and Millett, Christopher and Thompson, Jason and Wang, Ruoyu and Akaraci, Selin and Goel, Rahul and Reis, Rodrigo and Nice, Kerry A. and Zapata-Diomedi, Belen and Hallal, Pedro C. and Moro, Esteban and Amoako, Clifford and Hunter, Ruth F.

The Lancet Planetary Health, Vol. 9, pp. e207--e218 (2025) Full text

Green space exposure and active transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global analysis using Apple mobility data

Wang, Ruoyu and Akaraci, Selin and Moro, Esteban and Hallal, Pedro C. and Reis, Rodrigo and Hunter, Ruth

BMJ Global Health, Vol. 10 (2025) Full text

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Human mobility is well described by closed-form gravity-like models learned automatically from data

Cabanas-Tirapu, Oriol and Danús, Lluís and Moro, Esteban and Sales-Pardo, Marta and Guimerà, Roger

Nature Communications, Vol. 16, pp. 1336 (2025) Full text

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Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities

Xu, Fengli and Wang, Qi and Moro, Esteban and Chen, Lin and Salazar Miranda, Arianna and González, Marta C. and Tizzoni, Michele and Song, Chaoming and Ratti, Carlo and Bettencourt, Luis and Li, Yong and Evans, James

Nature Human Behaviour, Vol. 9, pp. 654--664 (2025) Full text

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When Influence Misleads: Informational and Strategic Limits of Social Learning in Trading Networks

Joseph, Bijin and Riedl, Christoph and Pentland, Alex and Moro, Esteban

arXiv (2025) Full text

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Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity

Minor, Kelton and Moro, Esteban and Obradovich, Nick

Psychological Science, Vol. 36, pp. 35--54 (2025) Full text

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Behaviour-based dependency networks between places shape urban economic resilience

Yabe, Takahiro and García Bulle Bueno, Bernardo and Frank, Morgan R. and Pentland, Alex and Moro, Esteban

Nature Human Behaviour, pp. 1--11 (2024) Full text

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City mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of a global natural experiment

Hunter, Ruth F. and Akaraci, Selin and Wang, Ruoyu and Reis, Rodrigo and Hallal, Pedro C. and Pentland, Sandy and Millett, Christopher and Garcia, Leandro and Thompson, Jason and Nice, Kerry and Zapata-Diomedi, Belen and Moro, Esteban

The Lancet Public Health, Vol. 9, pp. e896--e906 (2024) Full text

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Effect of mobile food environments on fast food visits

García Bulle Bueno, Bernardo and Horn, Abigail L. and Bell, Brooke M. and Bahrami, Mohsen and Bozkaya, Burçin and Pentland, Alex and de la Haye, Kayla and Moro, Esteban

Nature Communications, Vol. 15, pp. 2291 (2024) Full text

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Enhancing human mobility research with open and standardized datasets

Yabe, Takahiro and Luca, Massimiliano and Tsubouchi, Kota and Lepri, Bruno and Gonzalez, Marta C. and Moro, Esteban

Nature Computational Science, Vol. 4, pp. 469--472 (2024) Full text

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Ethical Challenges Arising from the Mapping of Mobile Phone Location Data

Sieg, Louise and Gibbs, Hamish and Gibin, Maurizio and Cheshire, James

The Cartographic Journal (2024) Full text

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Infrequent activities predict economic outcomes in major American cities

Wang, Shenhao and Zheng, Yunhan and Wang, Guang and Yabe, Takahiro and Moro, Esteban and Pentland, Alex ‘Sandy’

Nature Cities, Vol. 1, pp. 305--314 (2024) Full text

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Long-Range Social Influence in Phone Communication Networks on Offline Adoption Decisions

Leng, Yan and Dong, Xiaowen and Moro, Esteban and Pentland, Alex

Information Systems Research, Vol. 35, pp. 318--338 (2024) Full text

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Network constraints on worker mobility

Frank, Morgan R. and Moro, Esteban and South, Tobin and Rutherford, Alex and Pentland, Alex and Taska, Bledi and Rahwan, Iyad

Nature Cities, Vol. 1, pp. 94--104 (2024) Full text

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One rule does not fit all: deviations from universality in human mobility modeling

Napoli, Ludovico and Karsai, Márton and Moro, Esteban

2024 Full text

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Residential and experienced social segregation: the roles of different transport modes, metro extensions, and longitudinal changes in Hong Kong

Loo, Becky P. Y. and Fan, Zhuangyuan and Moro, Esteban

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Vol. 11, pp. 1439 (2024) Full text

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Social media sensors as early signals of influenza outbreaks at scale

Martín-Corral, David and García-Herranz, Manuel and Cebrian, Manuel and Moro, Esteban

EPJ Data Science, Vol. 13, pp. 43 (2024) Full text

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Temporal clustering of social interactions trades-off disease spreading and knowledge diffusion

Cencetti, Giulia and Lucchini, Lorenzo and Santin, Gabriele and Battiston, Federico and Moro, Esteban and Pentland, Alex and Lepri, Bruno

Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Vol. 21, pp. 20230471 (2024) Full text

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The great equalizer? Mixed effects of social infrastructure on diverse encounters in cities

Fraser, Timothy and Yabe, Takahiro and Aldrich, Daniel P. and Moro, Esteban

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Vol. 113, pp. 102173 (2024) Full text

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YJMob100K: City-scale and longitudinal dataset of anonymized human mobility trajectories

Yabe, Takahiro and Tsubouchi, Kota and Shimizu, Toru and Sekimoto, Yoshihide and Sezaki, Kaoru and Moro, Esteban and Pentland, Alex

Scientific Data, Vol. 11, pp. 397 (2024) Full text

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Behavioral changes during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased income diversity of urban encounters

Yabe, Takahiro and Bueno, Bernardo García Bulle and Dong, Xiaowen and Pentland, Alex and Moro, Esteban

Nature Communications, Vol. 14, pp. 2310 (2023) Full text

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Call detail record aggregation methodology impacts infectious disease models informed by human mobility

Gibbs, Hamish and Musah, Anwar and Seidu, Omar and Ampofo, William and Asiedu-Bekoe, Franklin and Gray, Jonathan and Adewole, Wole A. and Cheshire, James and Marks, Michael and Eggo, Rosalind M.

PLOS Computational Biology, Vol. 19, pp. e1011368 (2023) Full text

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Diversity beyond density: Experienced social mixing of urban streets

Fan, Zhuangyuan and Su, Tianyu and Sun, Maoran and Noyman, Ariel and Zhang, Fan and Pentland, Alex ‘Sandy’ and Moro, Esteban

PNAS Nexus, Vol. 2, pp. pgad077 (2023) Full text

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Harnessing mobility data to capture changing work from home behaviours between censuses

Gibbs, Hamish and Ballantyne, Patrick and Cheshire, James and Singleton, Alex and Green, Mark A.

The Geographical Journal, Vol. n/a (2023) Full text

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Home-to-school pedestrian mobility GPS data from a citizen science experiment in the Barcelona area

Larroya, Ferran and Díaz, Ofelia and Sagarra, Oleguer and Colomer Simón, Pol and Ferré, Salva and Moro, Esteban and Perelló, Josep

Scientific Data, Vol. 10, pp. 428 (2023) Full text

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Identifying latent activity behaviors and lifestyles using mobility data to describe urban dynamics

Yang, Yanni and Pentland, Alex and Moro, Esteban

EPJ Data Science, Vol. 12, pp. 1--15 (2023) Full text

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Population mobility data provides meaningful indicators of fast food intake and diet-related diseases in diverse populations

Horn, Abigail L. and Bell, Brooke M. and Bulle Bueno, Bernardo García and Bahrami, Mohsen and Bozkaya, Burçin and Cui, Yan and Wilson, John P. and Pentland, Alex and Moro, Esteban and De La Haye, Kayla

npj Digital Medicine, Vol. 6, pp. 208 (2023) Full text

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The unequal effects of the health–economy trade-off during the COVID-19 pandemic

Pangallo, Marco and Aleta, Alberto and Del Rio-Chanona, R. Maria and Pichler, Anton and Martin-Corral, David and Chinazzi, Matteo and Lafond, Francois and Ajelli, Marco and Moro, Esteban and Moreno, Yamir and Vespignani, Alessandro and Farmer, J. Doyne

Nature Human Behaviour (2023) Full text

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Generating synthetic mobility data for a realistic population with RNNs to improve utility and privacy

Berke, Alex and Doorley, Ronan and Larson, Kent and Moro, Esteban

arXiv, pp. 964--967 (2022) Full text

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Quantifying the importance and location of SARS-CoV-2 transmission events in large metropolitan areas

Aleta, Alberto and Martín-Corral, David and Bakker, Michiel A. and Pastore Y Piontti, Ana and Ajelli, Marco and Litvinova, Maria and Chinazzi, Matteo and Dean, Natalie E. and Halloran, M. Elizabeth and Longini, Ira M. and Pentland, Alex and Vespignani, Alessandro and Moreno, Yamir and Moro, Esteban

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 119, pp. e2112182119 (2022) Full text

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Rhythm of the streets: a street classification framework based on street activity patterns

Su, Tianyu and Sun, Maoran and Fan, Zhuangyuan and Noyman, Ariel and Pentland, Alex and Moro, Esteban

EPJ Data Science, Vol. 11, pp. 43 (2022) Full text

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Accuracy-Risk Trade-Off Due to Social Learning in Crowd-Sourced Financial Predictions

Adjodah, Dhaval and Leng, Yan and Chong, Shi Kai and Krafft, P. M. and Moro, Esteban and Pentland, Alex

Entropy, Vol. 23, pp. 801 (2021) Full text

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Effect of COVID-19 response policies on walking behavior in US cities

Hunter, Ruth F. and Garcia, Leandro and de Sa, Thiago Herick and Zapata-Diomedi, Belen and Millett, Christopher and Woodcock, James and Pentland, Alex ’Sandy’ and Moro, Esteban

Nature Communications, Vol. 12, pp. 3652 (2021) Full text

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Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities

Moro, Esteban and Calacci, Dan and Dong, Xiaowen and Pentland, Alex

Nature Communications, Vol. 12, pp. 4633 (2021) Full text

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News or social media? Socio-economic divide of mobile service consumption

Ucar, Iñaki and Gramaglia, Marco and Fiore, Marco and Smoreda, Zbigniew and Moro, Esteban

Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Vol. 18, pp. 20210350 (2021) Full text

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Universal resilience patterns in labor markets

Moro, Esteban and Frank, Morgan R. and Pentland, Alex and Rutherford, Alex and Cebrian, Manuel and Rahwan, Iyad

Nature Communications, Vol. 12, pp. 1972 (2021) Full text

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Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19

Aleta, Alberto and Martin-Corral, David and Pastore y Piontti, Ana and Ajelli, Marco and Litvinova, Maria and Chinazzi, Matteo and Dean, Natalie E and Halloran, M Elizabeth and Longini Jr, Ira M and Merler, Stefano and others

Nature human behaviour, Vol. 4, pp. 964--971 (2020) Full text

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Segregated interactions in urban and online space

Dong, Xiaowen and Morales, Alfredo J. and Jahani, Eaman and Moro, Esteban and Lepri, Bruno and Bozkaya, Burcin and Sarraute, Carlos and Bar-Yam, Yaneer and Pentland, Alex

EPJ Data Science, Vol. 9, pp. 20 (2020) Full text

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How to Hide One’s Relationships from Link Prediction Algorithms

Waniek, Marcin and Zhou, Kai and Vorobeychik, Yevgeniy and Moro, Esteban and Michalak, Tomasz P. and Rahwan, Talal

Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, pp. 12208 (2019) Full text

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How to Organize your Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents: The Importance of Communication Topology

Adjodah, Dhaval and Calacci, Dan and Dubey, Abhimanyu and Krafft, Peter and Moro, Esteban and Pentland, Alex `Sandy'

arXiv (2019) Full text

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Improved Learning in Evolution Strategies via Sparser Inter-Agent Network Topologies

Adjodah, Dhaval and Calacci, Dan and Leng, Yan and Krafft, Peter and Moro, Esteban and Pentland, Alex

arXiv (2019) Full text

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Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor

Frank, Morgan R. and Autor, David and Bessen, James E. and Brynjolfsson, Erik and Cebrian, Manuel and Deming, David J. and Feldman, Maryann and Groh, Matthew and Lobo, José and Moro, Esteban and Wang, Dashun and Youn, Hyejin and Rahwan, Iyad

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 116, pp. 6531--6539 (2019) Full text

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Towards a new social laboratory: An experimental study of search through community participation at Burning Man

Epstein, Ziv and Epstein, Micah and Almenar, Christian and Groh, Matt and Pescetelli, Niccolo and Moro, Esteban and Obradovich, Nick and Cebrian, Manuel and Rahwan, Iyad

arXiv (2019) Full text

Analyzing gender inequality through large-scale Facebook advertising data

Garcia, David and Mitike Kassa, Yonas and Cuevas, Angel and Cebrian, Manuel and Moro, Esteban and Rahwan, Iyad and Cuevas, Ruben

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, pp. 6958--6963 (2018) Full text

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MemeSequencer: Sparse Matching for Embedding Image Macros

Dubey, Abhimanyu and Moro, Esteban and Cebrian, Manuel and Rahwan, Iyad

ACM Press, pp. 1225--1235 (2018) Full text

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Weather impacts expressed sentiment

Baylis, Patrick and Obradovich, Nick and Kryvasheyeu, Yury and Chen, Haohui and Coviello, Lorenzo and Moro, Esteban and Cebrian, Manuel and Fowler, James H.

PLOS ONE, Vol. 13, pp. e0195750 (2018) Full text

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Differential Network Effects on Economic Outcomes: A Structural Perspective

Jahani, Eaman and Saint-Jacques, Guillaume and Sundsøy, Pål and Bjelland, Johannes and Moro, Esteban and Pentland, Alex ‘Sandy’

Social Informatics, Vol. 10540, pp. 41--50 (2017) Full text

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Temporal patterns behind the strength of persistent ties

Navarro, Henry and Miritello, Giovanna and Canales, Arturo and Moro, Esteban

EPJ Data Science, Vol. 6, pp. 31 (2017) Full text

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Channel-Specific Daily Patterns in Mobile Phone Communication

Aledavood, Talayeh and López, Eduardo and Roberts, Sam G. B. and Reed-Tsochas, Felix and Moro, Esteban and Dunbar, Robin I. M. and Saramäki, Jari

Proceedings of ECCS 2014, pp. 209--218 (2016) Full text

Rapid assessment of disaster damage using social media activity

Kryvasheyeu, Yury and Chen, Haohui and Obradovich, Nick and Moro, Esteban and Van Hentenryck, Pascal and Fowler, James and Cebrian, Manuel

Science Advances, Vol. 2, pp. e1500779 (2016) Full text

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Twitter Session Analytics: Profiling Users’ Short-Term Behavioral Changes

Kooti, Farshad and Moro, Esteban and Lerman, Kristina

Social Informatics, Vol. 10047, pp. 71--86 (2016) Full text

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Big Data Versus Small Data: The Case of ‘Gripe’ (Flu) in Spanish

Moreno-Sandoval, Antonio and Moro, Esteban

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 198, pp. 339--343 (2015) Full text

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Daily Rhythms in Mobile Telephone Communication

Aledavood, Talayeh and López, Eduardo and Roberts, Sam G. B. and Reed-Tsochas, Felix and Moro, Esteban and Dunbar, Robin I. M. and Saramäki, Jari

PLOS ONE, Vol. 10, pp. e0138098 (2015) Full text

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Dynamics of thin fluid films controlled by thermal fluctuations

Nesic, S. and Cuerno, R. and Moro, E. and Kondic, L.

The European Physical Journal Special Topics, Vol. 224, pp. 379--387 (2015) Full text

From seconds to months: an overview of multi-scale dynamics of mobile telephone calls

Saramäki, Jari and Moro, Esteban

The European Physical Journal B, Vol. 88, pp. 164 (2015) Full text

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Performance of Social Network Sensors during Hurricane Sandy

Kryvasheyeu, Yury and Chen, Haohui and Moro, Esteban and Van Hentenryck, Pascal and Cebrian, Manuel

PLOS ONE, Vol. 10, pp. e0117288 (2015) Full text

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Social Media Fingerprints of Unemployment

Llorente, Alejandro and Garcia-Herranz, Manuel and Cebrian, Manuel and Moro, Esteban

PLOS ONE, Vol. 10, pp. e0128692 (2015) Full text

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