Determining Spatial Structure of Saint Petersburg on the Mobile Data of Social Network “Odnoklassniki”

Student: Koroleva Irina

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Sociology (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2018

The work is aimed to discover places of social segregation in Saint-Petersburg. Data used in the work is provided by social network "Odnoklassniki" and includes age, sex, level of education and geolocation of users from the city. The hypothesis of the research about low level of segregation which exists between new houses and older ones was not confirmed. Instead, assumed places of living of differentiated by age and sex groups were found.

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