Inference of Demographic Attributes based on Mobile Phone Usage Patterns and Social Network Topology

Autores
Sarraute, Carlos; Brea, Jorge; Burroni, Javier; Blanc, Pablo
Año de publicación
2015
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Mobile phone usage provides a wealth of information, which can be used to better understand the demographic structure of a population. In this paper, we focus on the population of Mexican mobile phone users. We first present an observational study of mobile phone usage according to gender and age groups. We are able to detect significant differences in phone usage among different subgroups of the population. We then study the performance of different machine learning (ML) methods to predict demographic features (namely, age and gender) of unlabeled users by leveraging individual calling patterns, as well as the structure of the communication graph. We show how a specific implementation of a diffusion model, harnessing the graph structure, has significantly better performance over other node-based standard ML methods. We provide details of the methodology together with an analysis of the robustness of our results to changes in the model parameters. Furthermore, by carefully examining the topological relations of the training nodes (seed nodes) to the rest of the nodes in the network, we find topological metrics which have a direct influence on the performance of the algorithm.
Fil: Sarraute, Carlos. Grandata Labs; Argentina
Fil: Brea, Jorge. Grandata Labs; Argentina
Fil: Burroni, Javier. Grandata Labs; Argentina
Fil: Blanc, Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santalo". Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santalo"; Argentina
Materia
Social Network Analysis
Mobile Phone Social Network
Call Detail Records
Graph Mining
Demographics
Homophily
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Inference of Demographic Attributes based on Mobile Phone Usage Patterns and Social Network Topology
title Inference of Demographic Attributes based on Mobile Phone Usage Patterns and Social Network Topology
spellingShingle Inference of Demographic Attributes based on Mobile Phone Usage Patterns and Social Network Topology
Sarraute, Carlos
Social Network Analysis
Mobile Phone Social Network
Call Detail Records
Graph Mining
Demographics
Homophily
title_short Inference of Demographic Attributes based on Mobile Phone Usage Patterns and Social Network Topology
title_full Inference of Demographic Attributes based on Mobile Phone Usage Patterns and Social Network Topology
title_fullStr Inference of Demographic Attributes based on Mobile Phone Usage Patterns and Social Network Topology
title_full_unstemmed Inference of Demographic Attributes based on Mobile Phone Usage Patterns and Social Network Topology
title_sort Inference of Demographic Attributes based on Mobile Phone Usage Patterns and Social Network Topology
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Sarraute, Carlos
Brea, Jorge
Burroni, Javier
Blanc, Pablo
author Sarraute, Carlos
author_facet Sarraute, Carlos
Brea, Jorge
Burroni, Javier
Blanc, Pablo
author_role author
author2 Brea, Jorge
Burroni, Javier
Blanc, Pablo
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Social Network Analysis
Mobile Phone Social Network
Call Detail Records
Graph Mining
Demographics
Homophily
topic Social Network Analysis
Mobile Phone Social Network
Call Detail Records
Graph Mining
Demographics
Homophily
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Mobile phone usage provides a wealth of information, which can be used to better understand the demographic structure of a population. In this paper, we focus on the population of Mexican mobile phone users. We first present an observational study of mobile phone usage according to gender and age groups. We are able to detect significant differences in phone usage among different subgroups of the population. We then study the performance of different machine learning (ML) methods to predict demographic features (namely, age and gender) of unlabeled users by leveraging individual calling patterns, as well as the structure of the communication graph. We show how a specific implementation of a diffusion model, harnessing the graph structure, has significantly better performance over other node-based standard ML methods. We provide details of the methodology together with an analysis of the robustness of our results to changes in the model parameters. Furthermore, by carefully examining the topological relations of the training nodes (seed nodes) to the rest of the nodes in the network, we find topological metrics which have a direct influence on the performance of the algorithm.
Fil: Sarraute, Carlos. Grandata Labs; Argentina
Fil: Brea, Jorge. Grandata Labs; Argentina
Fil: Burroni, Javier. Grandata Labs; Argentina
Fil: Blanc, Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santalo". Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santalo"; Argentina
description Mobile phone usage provides a wealth of information, which can be used to better understand the demographic structure of a population. In this paper, we focus on the population of Mexican mobile phone users. We first present an observational study of mobile phone usage according to gender and age groups. We are able to detect significant differences in phone usage among different subgroups of the population. We then study the performance of different machine learning (ML) methods to predict demographic features (namely, age and gender) of unlabeled users by leveraging individual calling patterns, as well as the structure of the communication graph. We show how a specific implementation of a diffusion model, harnessing the graph structure, has significantly better performance over other node-based standard ML methods. We provide details of the methodology together with an analysis of the robustness of our results to changes in the model parameters. Furthermore, by carefully examining the topological relations of the training nodes (seed nodes) to the rest of the nodes in the network, we find topological metrics which have a direct influence on the performance of the algorithm.
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Sarraute, Carlos; Brea, Jorge; Burroni, Javier; Blanc, Pablo; Inference of Demographic Attributes based on Mobile Phone Usage Patterns and Social Network Topology ; Springer; Social Network Analysis and Mining; 5; 12-2015; 1-16; 39
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