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letting massive data tell their story…. Albert- László Barabási Center for Complex Networks Research, Northeastern U. Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. BarabasiLab.com. Tropical forest in Yucatan, Mexico . “Lévy flight” by a spider monkey.
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letting massive data tell their story… Albert-LászlóBarabási Center for Complex Networks Research, Northeastern U. Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School BarabasiLab.com
Tropical forest in Yucatan, Mexico “Lévy flight” by a spider monkey
Http://www.nd.edu/~networks Random walk theory AlbertEinstein,The theory of the Brownian Motion ANNALEN DER PHYSIK (1906)
Random Walks Lévy flights
Animal Motion Pókmajom Wandering Albatross Wandering Albatross Vishwanatan et. al. Nature(1996); Nature (1999). Sirályok repülése
WhereIsGeorge.com Human Motion Brockmann, Hufnagel, Geisel Nature (2006)
Human Motion Brockmann, Hufnagel, Geisel Nature (2006)
Mobile Phone Users 200 km 100 km 0 km 0 km 100 km 200 km 300 km
β=1.75±0.15 • Two possible explanations • Each users follows a Lévy flight • The difference between individuals follows a power law
Understanding human trajectories Center of Mass: Radius of Gyration:
Scaling in human trajectories βr=1.65±0.15
Mobile Phone Users 200 km 100 km 0 km 0 km 100 km 200 km 300 km
Mobile Phone Viruses Hypponen M. Scientific American Nov. 70-77 (2006).
Why did we not have a significant mobile virus breakout so far?
Spreading mechanism for cell phone viruses Long range infection process (similar to computer viruses) Short range infection process (similar to biological viruses, like influenza or SARS)
Spreading mechanism for cell phone viruses If the market share of an Operating System is under mc~10%, MMS viruses cannot spread.
You are what the data tells about you… BarabasiLab.com
Collaborators Pu Wang Marta Gonzalez Cesar Hidalgo www.BarabasiLab.com