In the post year 2000 era the technologies that facilitate human communication have rapidly multiplied. While the adoption of these technologies has hugely impacted the behaviour and sociality of people, specifically in urban but also in rural environments, their ‘digital footprints’ on different data bases have become an active area of research. The existence and accessibility of such large population-level datasets, has allowed scientists to study and model innate human tendencies and social patterns in an unprecedented way that complements traditional research approaches like questionnaire studies. In this review, we focus on data analytics and modelling research – along the lines of Social Physics – as it has been carried out using the mobile phone datasets to get insight into the various aspects of human sociality, burstiness in communication, mobility patterns, and daily rhythms.

在2000年后时代，促进人类交流的技术迅速增长。尽管这些技术的采用极大地影响了人们的行为和社会性，特别是在城市以及农村环境中，但它们在不同数据库上的“数字足迹”已成为研究的活跃领域。如此庞大的人口水平数据集的存在和可访问性，使科学家们能够以前所未有的方式研究和建模人类固有的倾向和社会模式，以补充问卷调查等传统研究方法。在这篇评论中，我们将重点关注数据分析和建模研究-遵循社会物理学的原理-由于它是使用手机数据集进行的，旨在深入了解人类社会性的各个方面，沟通的突发性，