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By mining an enormous database of telecommunications data, MIT researchers and colleagues at Cornell and University College London divided Great Britain into regions with strong internal information connections but weaker connections to adjacent regions. In large part, the new partitioning mirrored existing political divisions, but there were notable exceptions near the Welsh border and to the nor...

Can telecom data help redraw political boundaries?

By analyzing one of the world’s largest databases of phone data, researchers partition Great Britain into densely interconnected regions.

December 9, 2010