Tracking cell phone use could help curb epidemics -- study

by jayr_patron | June 4, 2008 at 06:19 pm

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Tracking demographic movement through cell phone usage can potentially curtail spread of communicable diseases, researchers found.

Scientists searching for patterns in seemingly random human movements have found that people, in the aggregate, go about their daily lives with mathematical regularity, according to a study published Thursday.
Tracking the movements of 100,000 people over six months through cell phone use, the researchers discovered that highly variable individual travel patterns collapsed into a single mathematical formula of probability.