Improving official statistics in emerging markets using machine learning and mobile phone data

Mobile phones are one of the fastest growing technologies in the developing world with global penetration rates reaching 90%. Mobile phone data, also called CDR, are generated everytime phones are used and recorded by carriers at scale. CDR have generated groundbreaking insights in public health, of...

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Main Authors: Sundsøy, Pål, Bjelland, Johannes, Bengtsson, Linus, de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre, Jahani, Eaman, Pentland, Alex Paul
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109143
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3879-4275
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-9983