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Analysis of mobility homophily in Stockholm based on social network data.

Authors :
Cate Heine
Cristina Marquez
Paolo Santi
Marcus Sundberg
Miriam Nordfors
Carlo Ratti
Source :
PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 3, p e0247996 (2021)
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021.

Abstract

We present a novel metric for measuring relative connection between parts of a city using geotagged Twitter data as a proxy for co-occurrence of city residents. We find that socioeconomic similarity is a significant predictor of this connectivity metric, which we call "linkage strength": neighborhoods that are similar to one another in terms of residents' median income, education level, and (to a lesser extent) immigration history are more strongly connected in terms of the of people who spend time there, indicating some level of homophily in the way that individuals choose to move throughout a city's districts.

Subjects

Subjects :
Medicine
Science

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
19326203
Volume :
16
Issue :
3
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
PLoS ONE
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.4977b4b8013c438c8b469629a7cc1f44
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247996