Past Member

Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Former Research Affiliate

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 …

bandicoot provides a complete, easy-to-use environment for researchers using mobile phone metadata. It allows them to easily load their dat…

Even when real names and other personal information are stripped from metadata datasets, it is often possible to use just a few pieces of i…

In a world where sensors, data storage, and processing power are too cheap to meter, how do you ensure that users can realize the full valu…