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SUMMARY:Big Data\, Global Development\, and Complex Social Systems
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Nathan Eagle\, MIT\nPetabytes of data about human moveme
 nts\, transactions\, and  \ncommunication patterns are continuously being 
 generated by everyday  \ntechnologies such as mobile phones and credit car
 ds. This  \nunprecedented volume of information facilitates a novel set of
   \nresearch questions applicable to a wide range of development issues.  
 \nIn collaboration with the mobile phone\, internet\, and credit card  \ni
 ndustries\, my colleagues and I are aggregating and analyzing  \nbehaviora
 l data from over 250 million people from North and South  \nAmerica\, Euro
 pe\, Asia and Africa. I will discuss a selection of  \nprojects arising fr
 om these collaborations that involve inferring  \nbehavioral dynamics on a
  broad spectrum of scales\; from risky behavior  \nin a group of MIT fresh
 man to population-level behavioral signatures\,  \nincluding cholera outbr
 eaks in Rwanda and wealth in the UK. Access to  \nthe movement patterns of
  the majority of mobile phones in East Africa  \nalso facilitates realisti
 c models of disease transmission as well as  \nslum formations. This vast 
 volume of data requires new analytical  \ntools - we are developing a rang
 e of large-scale network analysis and  \nmachine learning algorithms that 
 we hope will provide deeper insight  \ninto human behavior. However\, ulti
 mately our goal is to determine how  \nwe can use these insights to active
 ly improve the lives of the  \nbillions of people who generate this data a
 nd the societies in which  \nthey live.  Prof. Eagle's homepage
LOCATION:BC 01 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%2001
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