We analyze two large datasets from technological networks with location and
social data: user location records from an online location-based social
networking service, and anonymized telecommunications data from a European
cellphone operator, in order to investigate the differences between individual
and group behavior with respect to physical location. We discover agreements
between the two datasets: firstly, that individuals are more likely to meet
with one friend at a place they have not visited before, but tend to meet at
familiar locations when with a larger group. We also find that groups of
individuals are more likely to meet at places that their other friends have
visited, and that the type of a place strongly affects the propensity for
groups to meet there. These differences between group and solo mobility has
potential technological applications, for example, in venue recommendation in
location-based social networks.
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%1 brown2014group
%A Brown, Chloë
%A Lathia, Neal
%A Noulas, Anastasios
%A Mascolo, Cecilia
%A Blondel, Vincent
%D 2014
%K behavior cell diss foursquare geo group inthesis network phone social spatial
%T Group colocation behavior in technological social networks
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1519
%X We analyze two large datasets from technological networks with location and
social data: user location records from an online location-based social
networking service, and anonymized telecommunications data from a European
cellphone operator, in order to investigate the differences between individual
and group behavior with respect to physical location. We discover agreements
between the two datasets: firstly, that individuals are more likely to meet
with one friend at a place they have not visited before, but tend to meet at
familiar locations when with a larger group. We also find that groups of
individuals are more likely to meet at places that their other friends have
visited, and that the type of a place strongly affects the propensity for
groups to meet there. These differences between group and solo mobility has
potential technological applications, for example, in venue recommendation in
location-based social networks.
@misc{brown2014group,
abstract = {We analyze two large datasets from technological networks with location and
social data: user location records from an online location-based social
networking service, and anonymized telecommunications data from a European
cellphone operator, in order to investigate the differences between individual
and group behavior with respect to physical location. We discover agreements
between the two datasets: firstly, that individuals are more likely to meet
with one friend at a place they have not visited before, but tend to meet at
familiar locations when with a larger group. We also find that groups of
individuals are more likely to meet at places that their other friends have
visited, and that the type of a place strongly affects the propensity for
groups to meet there. These differences between group and solo mobility has
potential technological applications, for example, in venue recommendation in
location-based social networks.},
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archiveprefix = {arXiv},
author = {Brown, Chlo\"{e} and Lathia, Neal and Noulas, Anastasios and Mascolo, Cecilia and Blondel, Vincent},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/28419e8dfae619fca7c94ce9befc9c715/becker},
citeulike-article-id = {13331665},
citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1519},
citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.1519},
day = 8,
eprint = {1408.1519},
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keywords = {behavior cell diss foursquare geo group inthesis network phone social spatial},
month = aug,
posted-at = {2014-08-21 10:24:22},
priority = {2},
timestamp = {2017-02-04T17:02:25.000+0100},
title = {Group colocation behavior in technological social networks},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1519},
year = 2014
}