University of Southern California: Spotting Human Activity In Internet Usage Data

University of Southern California: Spotting Human Activity In Internet Usage Data. “Since 2013, the ANT Lab has had an ongoing project that actively probes the Internet to detect outages worldwide (currently 5 million networks measured every 11 minutes). [John] Heidemann and [Xiao] Song used this existing data to look for and analyze changes in Internet usage worldwide that could indicate something about human behavior. They developed algorithms to clean the data, extract underlying trends, and detect changes in activity.”