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Cate Heine1, Cristina Marquez2, Paolo Santi1,3, Marcus Sundberg4, Miriam Nordfors5, Carlo Ratti1.
Abstract
We present a novel metric for measuring relative connection between parts of a city using geotagged Twitter data as a proxy for co-occurrence of city residents. We find that socioeconomic similarity is a significant predictor of this connectivity metric, which we call "linkage strength": neighborhoods that are similar to one another in terms of residents' median income, education level, and (to a lesser extent) immigration history are more strongly connected in terms of the of people who spend time there, indicating some level of homophily in the way that individuals choose to move throughout a city's districts.Entities:
Year: 2021 PMID: 33690698 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247996
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240