Paper Info
Title
Exploring Institution-Based Mobility: Which Universities Attract Athletes from Distant and Diverse Locales?
Abstract
Institutions are powerful forces in modern society -- they affect human mobility, and are constantly pushing and pulling individuals across geographic space. Institution data is rarely including in studies of mobility, although we find these data to be a rich source of information on human mobility. We visit over 1000 U.S. University athletics web pages from 78 universities, 20 different types of sports, to produce a 90,000+ record dataset of U.S. And international student athletes and their hometowns. This new agent-based origin-destination data set has not been previously gathered into one file for public use. For each university, we measure its \"pull power\", i.e. Its ability to attract students from many different, and distant hometowns. From these data, we explore the mobility of students from different universities and find witch institutions are catalyzing human migration and movement to 'powerful' extents.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/MDM.2015.28
MDM
Keywords
Field
DocType
migration, internet, data scraping, university, college, sports, ranking, social flows, social networks
Human migration,Athletes,Social network,Telecommunications,Web page,Computer science,Public relations,Computer network,Witch,Public use,Data scraping,The Internet
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2
1551-6245
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Clio Andris11179.67
Zoe Andris200.34