MultiscaleMobilityPatterns

Code for the paper "Multiscale mobility patterns and the restriction of human movement" by Dominik J Schindler, Jonathan M Clarke and Mauricio Barahona: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06323

Data access

Facebook Movement Maps

Data used in this study was accessed through Facebook's "Data for Good" program: https://dataforgood.facebook.com/dfg/tools/movement-maps. We use the raw data only in our first notebook, where we compute baseline and daily mobility networks for the UK (see paper) that can be used to reproduce all results in this study. This derivative data is available in the data/processed/networks directory.

Geographic shape files

Shape files for the UK Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), January 2018, used in this study are obtained from the Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0 and contain OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2023: https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/nuts3-jan-2018-super-generalised-clipped-boundaries-in-the-uk/explore

Shape files for the Travel to Work Areas (TTWA), December 2011, used in this study are obtained from the Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0 and contain OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2023: https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/ons::travel-to-work-areas-dec-2011-super-generalised-clipped-boundaries-in-united-kingdom-2/explore

We also annotate geographic maps with UK city names licensed under MIT license: https://simplemaps.com/data/gb-cities

Multiscale clustering

In this study, we use the PyGenStability python package for unsupervised multiscale clustering of the Facebook mobility data with Markov Stability analysis, including scale selection. Code and documentation are hosted on GitHub under a GNU General Public License: https://github.com/barahona-research-group/PyGenStability

Cite

Please cite our paper if you use our code or data in your own work:

@article{schindlerMultiscaleMobilityPatterns2023,
  author = {Schindler, Dominik J. and Clarke, Jonathan and Barahona, Mauricio},
  title = {Multiscale Mobility Patterns and the Restriction of Human Movement},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2201.06323},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06323},
}

Licence

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