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Study: Mobile phone, twitter data can be used to estimate crowd size

 

In an era of mobile internet, data is a key element in many fields. Now researchers said they can even use geographical data from mobile phones and Twitter to estimate the size of a large crowd.

Over a two-month long study in Milan, researchers from UK's Warwick University analyzed geo-tagged tweets and mobile phone use, based on the mobile data provided by local carrier.

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