Smartphone Trajectories as Data Sources for Agent‐Based Infection‐Spread Modeling
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Abstract
The ubiquitous use of smartphones and other devices communicating over cellular networks and Bluetooth radios generates spatiotemporal usage data located with the cellular service provider and held within purpose-designed smartphone apps. These data can characterize a person's movements and interactions with high resolution accuracy, providing opportunities to apply these data as inputs to infectious disease modeling. In Canada, the penetration of cellular phones exceeds 80% nationally, making them a very strong proxy for people's movement and interaction patterns. This chapter overviews the types of cellular network data available from a telecommunications service provider and demonstrates their utility in estimating agent behavior patterns as suitable inputs into an agent-based model of contact-based infection spread. Two separate agent-based models of infection spread are summarized to illustrate the use of the data and a third is used to validate the data. As an extension, a Bluetooth-based smartphone application is presented, which allows one to detect others within one's proximity, extending the role a smartphone may play in modeling infection spread.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it