NULab co-director, computational social scientist David Lazer, and his interdisciplinary research team have published a study in the Journal of Royal Society Interface that highlights the potential of mobile phone data to improve forecasts of critical economic indicators—information that is extremely valuable to policymakers in the public and private sectors. Northeastern News profiles the findings of the study here.
This study has also been highlighted on FastCoExist.com, the Wall Street Journal, BetaBoston in the Boston Globe, and The Atlantic.