A New Approach to Clustering Districts and Connections Between Them Based on Cellular Operator Data

Abstract

Abstract: According to the Digital 2021 report of the We Are Social agency, by January 2021, the population of the Earth totaled more than 7.83 billion people with a population urbanization rate of 56.4%. According to reports from previous years, the proportion of the population living in cities is steadily increasing, so it is very important to make the life of city dwellers comfortable. The article describes an approach to clustering city districts and connections between them based on features constructed according to the data of cellular operators. A demonstration of the application of this approach for clustering Moscow districts and territorial units of the Moscow region, as well as connections between them, is performed. The clustering results, as well as the approach described in the article, can be used by urbanists to build infrastructure in areas following the behavior of its inhabitants.

Keywords

• cellular operator data analysis
• city districts clustering
• smart cities