Description: A research project that aims to uncover fundamental patterns in social dynamics and coordinated human activity through a data-driven approach.
SocioPatterns is an interdisciplinary research collaboration formed in 2008 that adopts a data-driven methodology to study social dynamics and human activity.
Since 2008, we have collected longitudinal data on the physical proximity and face-to-face contacts of individuals in numerous real-world environments, covering widely varying contexts across several countries: schools, museums, hospitals, etc. We use the data to study human behaviour and to develop agent-based models for the transmission of infectious diseases.
We make most of the collected data freely available to the scientific community.