TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring Institution-Based Mobility
T2 - 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2015
AU - Andris, Clio
AU - Andris, Zoe
PY - 2015/9/11
Y1 - 2015/9/11
N2 - Institutions are powerful forces in modern society - they affect human mobility, and are constantly pushing and pulling individuals across geographic space. Institution data is rarely including in studies of mobility, although we find these data to be a rich source of information on human mobility. We visit over 1000 U.S. University athletics web pages from 78 universities, 20 different types of sports, to produce a 90,000+ record dataset of U.S. And international student athletes and their hometowns. This new agent-based origin-destination data set has not been previously gathered into one file for public use. For each university, we measure its "pull power", i.e. Its ability to attract students from many different, and distant hometowns. From these data, we explore the mobility of students from different universities and find witch institutions are catalyzing human migration and movement to 'powerful' extents.
AB - Institutions are powerful forces in modern society - they affect human mobility, and are constantly pushing and pulling individuals across geographic space. Institution data is rarely including in studies of mobility, although we find these data to be a rich source of information on human mobility. We visit over 1000 U.S. University athletics web pages from 78 universities, 20 different types of sports, to produce a 90,000+ record dataset of U.S. And international student athletes and their hometowns. This new agent-based origin-destination data set has not been previously gathered into one file for public use. For each university, we measure its "pull power", i.e. Its ability to attract students from many different, and distant hometowns. From these data, we explore the mobility of students from different universities and find witch institutions are catalyzing human migration and movement to 'powerful' extents.
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U2 - 10.1109/MDM.2015.28
DO - 10.1109/MDM.2015.28
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84958169920
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management
SP - 62
EP - 67
BT - Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 16th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 15 June 2015 through 18 June 2015
ER -