Entropy as a measure of attractiveness and socioeconomic complexity in Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10340v1
• Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:58:56 GMT
• Title: Entropy as a measure of attractiveness and socioeconomic complexity in Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area
• Authors: Maxime Lenormand, Horacio Samaniego, Julio C. Chaves, Vinicius F. Vieira, Moacyr A. H. B. da Silva and Alexandre G. Evsukoff
• Abstract summary: We use a mobile phone dataset and an entropy-based metric to measure the attractiveness of a location. The results show that the attractiveness of a given location measured by entropy is an important descriptor of the socioeconomic status of the location.
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• Abstract: Defining and measuring spatial inequalities across the urban environment remains a complex and elusive task that has been facilitated by the increasing availability of large geolocated databases. In this study, we rely on a mobile phone dataset and an entropy-based metric to measure the attractiveness of a location in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area (Brazil) as the diversity of visitors' location of residence. The results show that the attractiveness of a given location measured by entropy is an important descriptor of the socioeconomic status of the location, and can thus be used as a proxy for complex socioeconomic indicators.

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