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Exploring Georeferenced Mobile Phone Datasets – A Survey and Reference Framework
Author(s) -
Yuan Yihong,
Raubal Martin
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
geography compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.587
H-Index - 65
ISSN - 1749-8198
DOI - 10.1111/gec3.12269
Subject(s) - metadata , geospatial analysis , georeference , mobile phone , computer science , data science , phone , table (database) , world wide web , mobile device , geography , information retrieval , data mining , cartography , telecommunications , linguistics , philosophy , physical geography
Nowadays, mobile phones and other information and communication technology (ICT) devices collect large numbers of measurements about their users. This review paper provides an overview of georeferenced mobile phone datasets by exploring and summarizing the metadata of multiple datasets based on a literature review. It also presents an abstract model to depict the connections of these datasets, serving as the basis for potential spatio‐temporal data mining and geographic knowledge discovery tasks. The summarized metadata table and proposed research topics can be applied as a reference framework to future studies in the area of mobile computing, geospatial data mining, and mobile data collection in the age of instant access.