A team of statistical researchers at Meta, owner of Facebook, working with colleagues from the University of Hong Kong and Harvard University, has applied a specially designed algorithm to analyze Facebook data to track human migration around the world in the year 2022. The team has posted a paper describing their efforts and results on the arXiv preprint server.
Facebook data used to study global human migration patterns
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