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Facebook data used to identify cities that attract migrants in a systematic way

Systematic migration is defined in the study as “coordinated” migration in these terms: We formally define a coordinated migration as the movement of population from a hometown h to its most likely current city c(h) such that: At least 100 users have listed city h as their hometown.…

World Bank public data, now in search

Taking a cue from and fearing the competition of the the recent Wolfram  Alpha – Bing – Yahoo alliance Google has probably paid World Bank an arm and a leg to plug their search engine in the newly released WB data API.…