The Connected States of America
The Connected States of America illustrates the emerging communities based on the social interactions through the use of anonymized mobile phone data. Investigating the interaction network of people reveals interesting facets on how people utilize space. Cities attract their citizens from all walks of life, from nearby and from distant areas across the country. This constant flux of people commuting, migrating, and travelling across the country establishes connections which are dominated by large cities. The social connections woven across the United States can be used to define communities, where the glue that holds a community together is a stronger relationship with other members of the same community compared to members of other communities. Naturally, one can ask whether the communities defined purely by social interactions coincide with the administrative boundaries, for example state boundaries? Remarkably, this is not always the case! See senseable.mit.edu for more visualizations and information. Team MIT senseable city lab Carlo Ratti group director Franscesco Calabrese project leader Dominik Dahlem Xiaoji Chen ATT Labs - Research Alexandre Gerber DeDe Paul Christoper Rath James Rowland
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What band is this? (music)
When did these “new communities” begin to form? In the nineteenth century when people started using telephones. There is nothing new about people calling each other. The fact that these are mobile phone calls means nothing in terms of historical significance of people calling other people in other states. And in any case, it is simply ignorant to claim this is a new phenomenon without comparing it to land-line call patterns from previous decades.
Fantastic video!!!
Is is possible to do this across the world? I guess it will take working with way too many operators, but it would be interesting to know which areas are best connected with which ones…
How about one for Canada?
@DXCoRunner
You, sir, are a paradox. How does that feel?
@mastinotje…spoken like a person mad with jealousy. LOL!
That big giant empty gap is mine. ALL MINE!!! bwahahaha! Bow Down to your king….
that why people dont need boundaries
@mastinotje we still got nukes and shit load of cole haha
@eLLriDe420 Technically, if you want to be an ass about it, you described TWO continents, South America being it’s own. When someone says “America”, they are implying the USA. Stop being a dick, thumbs down’ed.
@DXCoRunner wtf man, get connected you no color.
Song and artist, anyone?
America is also short for The United States Of America. I always love it when some smartazz complains about that. They call us arrogant for assuming the name of the continent for our country. They know what we mean. The proof? Just make the mistake of asking a Canadian if they’re American when you meet one overseas. They act like it’s a major insult.
I live in a black zone. Ha!
This is not amerca…this is the united states. America is an enitre continent divided into north, central, and south america…..get your shit right, disliked
I too would like to know the song is!
NO ONE TALKS WITH BOTH THE DAKOTAS
it would of been better if we had only 3 states, Hawaii, Alaska and the state of America. it should be united in to one state not divided into 50 diff states.
What’s that a map of?
China?
I hereby claim that giant space out west where apparently no one is connecting with anyone.
This is totally cool! I did some sussing out and it looks like most of the out-of-state calls from the northern tier are down to the retirement communities in the south east and south west.
Interesting — still keeping in touch with the Grandparents is seems…
The map of “social connections” is really based on population more than anything.
the 0 dislikes are from the people of Montana and Dakotas… who are obviously not connected.
Connecting through Carl’s Jr. Cheeseburgers is good too
What’s the music..?