Package: scikit-mobility
scikit-mobility - mobility analysis in PythonTryscikit-mobilitywithout installing itin a MyBinder notebook:onJovianscikit-mobilityis a library for human mobility analysis in Python. The library allows to:represent trajectories and mobility flows with proper data structures,TrajDataFrameandFlowDataFrame.manage and manipulate mobility data of various formats (call detail records, GPS data, data from social media, survey data, etc.);extract mobility metrics and patterns from data, both at individual and collective level (e.g., length of displacements, characteristic distance, origin-destination matrix, etc.)generate synthetic individual trajectories using standard mathematical models (random walk models, exploration and preferential return model, etc.)generate synthetic mobility flows using standard migration models (gravity model, radiation model, etc.)assess the privacy risk associated with a mobility data setTable of contentsDocumentationCitingCollaborate with usInstallationwith pipwith condaknown issuestest installationGoogle ColabTutorialsExamplesTrajDataFrameFlowDataFramePreprocessingMeasuresCollective generative modelsIndividual generative modelsPrivacyDownloading datasetsDocumentationThe documentation of scikit-mobility's classes and functions is available at:https://scikit-mobility.github.io/scikit-mobility/Citingif you use scikit-mobility please cite the following paper:Luca Pappalardo, Filippo Simini, Gianni Barlacchi and Roberto Pellungrini.scikit-mobility: a Python library for the analysis, generation and risk assessment of mobility data,
2019,https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07062Bibtex:@misc{pappalardo2019scikitmobility,
    title={scikit-mobility: a Python library for the analysis, generation and risk assessment of mobility data},
    author={Luca Pappalardo and Filippo Simini and Gianni Barlacchi and Roberto Pellungrini},
    year={2019},
    eprint={1907.07062},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={physics.soc-ph}
}Collaborate with usscikit-mobilityis an active project and any contribution is welcome.If you would like to include your algorithm inscikit-mobility, feel free to fork the project, open an issue andcontact us.Installationscikit-mobility for Python >= 3.8 and all it's dependencies are available from conda-forge and can be installed usingconda install -c conda-forge scikit-mobility.Note that it isNOT recommendedto install scikit-mobility from PyPI! If you're on Windows or Mac, many GeoPandas / scikit-mobility dependencies cannot be pip installed (for details see the corresponding notes in the GeoPandas documentation).installation with pip (python >= 3.8 required)Create an environmentskmobpython3 -m venv skmobActivatesource skmob/bin/activateInstall skmobpip install scikit-mobilityOPTIONAL to usescikit-mobilityon the jupyter notebookActivate the virutalenv:source skmob/bin/activateInstall jupyter notebook:pip install jupyterRun jupyter notebookjupyter notebook(Optional) install the kernel with a specific nameipython kernel install --user --name=skmobinstallation with conda - minicondaCreate an environmentskmoband install pipconda create -n skmob pip python=3.9 rtreeActivateconda activate skmobInstall skmobconda install -c conda-forge scikit-mobilityOPTIONAL to usescikit-mobilityon the jupyter notebookInstall the kernelconda install jupyter -c conda-forgeOpen a notebook and check if the kernelskmobis on the kernel list. If not, run the following:On Mac and Linuxenv=$(basename `echo $CONDA_PREFIX`)
python -m ipykernel install --user --name "$env" --display-name "Python [conda env:"$env"]"On Windowspython -m ipykernel install --user --name skmob --display-name "Python [conda env: skmob]":exclamation: You may run into dependency issues if you try to import the package in Python. If so, try installing the following packages as followed.conda install -n skmob pyproj urllib3 chardet markupsafeTest the installation> source activate skmob
(skmob)> python
>>> import skmob
>>>Google Colabscikit-mobility can be installed onGoogle Colabusing the following commands:!apt-get install -qq curl g++ make
!curl -L http://download.osgeo.org/libspatialindex/spatialindex-src-1.8.5.tar.gz | tar xz
import os
os.chdir('spatialindex-src-1.8.5')
!./configure
!make
!make install
!pip install rtree
!ldconfig
!pip install scikit-mobilityTutorialsYou can some tutorials on scikit-mobility here:https://github.com/scikit-mobility/tutorials.ExamplesCreate aTrajDataFrameIn scikit-mobility, a set of trajectories is described by aTrajDataFrame, an extension of the pandasDataFramethat has specific columns names and data types. ATrajDataFramecan contain many trajectories, and each row in theTrajDataFramerepresents a point of a trajectory, described by three mandatory fields (aka columns):latitude(type: float);longitude(type: float);datetime(type: date-time).Additionally, two optional columns can be specified:uid(type: string) identifies the object associated with the point of the trajectory. Ifuidis not present, scikit-mobility assumes that theTrajDataFramecontains trajectories associated with a single moving object;tidspecifies the identifier of the trajectory to which the point belongs to. Iftidis not present, scikit-mobility assumes that all rows in theTrajDataFrameassociated with auidbelong to the same trajectory;Note that, besides the mandatory columns, the user can add to aTrajDataFrameas many columns as they want since the data structures in scikit-mobility inherit all the pandasDataFramefunctionalities.Create aTrajDataFramefrom a list:>>>importskmob>>># create a TrajDataFrame from a list>>>data_list=[[1,39.984094,116.319236,'2008-10-23 13:53:05'],[1,39.984198,116.319322,'2008-10-23 13:53:06'],[1,39.984224,116.319402,'2008-10-23 13:53:11'],[1,39.984211,116.319389,'2008-10-23 13:53:16']]>>>tdf=skmob.TrajDataFrame(data_list,latitude=1,longitude=2,datetime=3)>>># print a portion of the TrajDataFrame>>>print(tdf.head())0        lat         lng            datetime
0  1  39.984094  116.319236 2008-10-23 13:53:05
1  1  39.984198  116.319322 2008-10-23 13:53:06
2  1  39.984224  116.319402 2008-10-23 13:53:11
3  1  39.984211  116.319389 2008-10-23 13:53:16>>>print(type(tdf))<class 'skmob.core.trajectorydataframe.TrajDataFrame'>Create aTrajDataFramefrom apandasDataFrame:>>>importpandasaspd>>># create a DataFrame from the previous list>>>data_df=pd.DataFrame(data_list,columns=['user','latitude','lng','hour'])>>># print the type of the object>>>print(type(data_df))<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>>>># now create a TrajDataFrame from the pandas DataFrame>>>tdf=skmob.TrajDataFrame(data_df,latitude='latitude',datetime='hour',user_id='user')>>># print the type of the object>>>print(type(tdf))<class 'skmob.core.trajectorydataframe.TrajDataFrame'>>>># print a portion of the TrajDataFrame>>>print(tdf.head())uid        lat         lng            datetime
0    1  39.984094  116.319236 2008-10-23 13:53:05
1    1  39.984198  116.319322 2008-10-23 13:53:06
2    1  39.984224  116.319402 2008-10-23 13:53:11
3    1  39.984211  116.319389 2008-10-23 13:53:16We can also create aTrajDataFramefrom a file. For example, in the following we create aTrajDataFramefrom a portion of a GPS trajectory dataset collected in the context of theGeoLifeproject by 178 users in a period of over four years from April 2007 to October 2011.>>># download the file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scikit-mobility/scikit-mobility/master/examples/geolife_sample.txt.gz>>># read the trajectory data (GeoLife, Beijing, China)>>>tdf=skmob.TrajDataFrame.from_file('geolife_sample.txt.gz',latitude='lat',longitude='lon',user_id='user',datetime='datetime')>>># print a portion of the TrajDataFrame>>>print(tdf.head())lat         lng            datetime  uid
0  39.984094  116.319236 2008-10-23 05:53:05    1
1  39.984198  116.319322 2008-10-23 05:53:06    1
2  39.984224  116.319402 2008-10-23 05:53:11    1
3  39.984211  116.319389 2008-10-23 05:53:16    1
4  39.984217  116.319422 2008-10-23 05:53:21    1ATrajDataFramecan be plotted on afoliuminteractive map using theplot_trajectoryfunction.>>>tdf.plot_trajectory(zoom=12,weight=3,opacity=0.9,tiles='Stamen Toner')Create aFlowDataFrameIn scikit-mobility, an origin-destination matrix is described by theFlowDataFramestructure, an extension of the pandasDataFramethat has specific column names and data types. A row in aFlowDataFramerepresents a flow of objects between two locations, described by three mandatory columns:origin(type: string);destination(type: string);flow(type: integer).Again, the user can add to aFlowDataFrameas many columns as they want since theFlowDataFramedata structure inherits all the pandasDataFramefunctionalities.In mobility tasks, the territory is often discretized by mapping the coordinates to a spatial tessellation, i.e., a covering of the bi-dimensional space using a countable number of geometric shapes (e.g., squares, hexagons), called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. For instance, for the analysis or prediction of mobility flows, a spatial tessellation is used to aggregate flows of people moving among locations (the tiles of the tessellation). For this reason, eachFlowDataFrameis associated with aspatial tessellation, ageopandasGeoDataFramethat contains two mandatory columns:tile_ID(type: integer) indicates the identifier of a location;geometryindicates the polygon (or point) that describes the geometric shape of the location on a territory (e.g., a square, a voronoi shape, the shape of a neighborhood).Note that each location identifier in theoriginanddestinationcolumns of aFlowDataFramemust be present in the associated spatial tessellation.Create a spatial tessellation from a file describing counties in New York state:>>>importskmob>>>importgeopandasasgpd>>># load a spatial tessellation>>>url_tess=skmob.utils.constants.NY_COUNTIES_2011>>>tessellation=gpd.read_file(url_tess).rename(columns={'tile_id':'tile_ID'})>>># print a portion of the spatial tessellation>>>print(tessellation.head())tile_ID  population                                           geometry
0   36019       81716  POLYGON ((-74.006668 44.886017, -74.027389 44....
1   36101       99145  POLYGON ((-77.099754 42.274215, -77.0996569999...
2   36107       50872  POLYGON ((-76.25014899999999 42.296676, -76.24...
3   36059     1346176  POLYGON ((-73.707662 40.727831, -73.700272 40....
4   36011       79693  POLYGON ((-76.279067 42.785866, -76.2753479999...Create aFlowDataFramefrom a spatial tessellation and a file of real flows between counties in New York state:>>># load real flows into a FlowDataFrame>>>fdf=skmob.FlowDataFrame.from_file(skmob.utils.constants.NY_FLOWS_2011,tessellation=tessellation,tile_id='tile_ID',sep=",")>>># print a portion of the flows>>>print(fdf.head())flow origin destination
0  121606  36001       36001
1       5  36001       36005
2      29  36001       36007
3      11  36001       36017
4      30  36001       36019AFlowDataFramecan be visualized on afoliuminteractive map using theplot_flowsfunction, which plots the flows on a geographic map as lines between the centroids of the tiles in theFlowDataFrame's spatial tessellation:>>>fdf.plot_flows(flow_color='red')Similarly, the spatial tessellation of aFlowDataFramecan be visualized using theplot_tessellationfunction. The argumentpopup_features(type:list, default:[constants.TILE_ID]) allows to enhance the plot's interactivity displaying popup windows that appear when the user clicks on a tile and includes information contained in the columns of the tessellation'sGeoDataFramespecified in the argument’s list:>>>fdf.plot_tessellation(popup_features=['tile_ID','population'])The spatial tessellation and the flows can be visualized together using themap_fargument, which specifies the folium object on which to plot:>>>m=fdf.plot_tessellation()# plot the tessellation>>>fdf.plot_flows(flow_color='red',map_f=m)# plot the flowsTrajectory preprocessingAs any analytical process, mobility data analysis requires data cleaning and preprocessing steps. Thepreprocessingmodule allows the user to perform four main preprocessing steps:noise filtering;stop detection;stop clustering;trajectory compression;Note that, if aTrajDataFramecontains multiple trajectories from multiple users, the preprocessing methods automatically apply to the single trajectory and, when necessary, to the single moving object.Noise filteringIn scikit-mobility, the functionfilterfilters out a point if the speed from the previous point is higher than the parametermax_speed, which is by default set to 500km/h.>>>fromskmob.preprocessingimportfiltering>>># filter out all points with a speed (in km/h) from the previous point higher than 500 km/h>>>ftdf=filtering.filter(tdf,max_speed_kmh=500.)>>>print(ftdf.parameters){'from_file': 'geolife_sample.txt.gz', 'filter': {'function': 'filter', 'max_speed_kmh': 500.0, 'include_loops': False, 'speed_kmh': 5.0, 'max_loop': 6, 'ratio_max': 0.25}}>>>n_deleted_points=len(tdf)-len(ftdf)# number of deleted points>>>print(n_deleted_points)54Note that theTrajDataFramestructure as theparametersattribute, which indicates the operations that have been applied to theTrajDataFrame. This attribute is a dictionary the key of which is the signature of the function applied.Stop detectionSome points in a trajectory can represent Point-Of-Interests (POIs) such as schools, restaurants, and bars, or they can represent user-specific places such as home and work locations. These points are usually called Stay Points or Stops, and they can be detected in different ways. A common approach is to apply spatial clustering algorithms to cluster trajectory points by looking at their spatial proximity. In scikit-mobility, thestay_locationsfunction, contained in thedetectionmodule, finds the stay points visited by a moving object. For instance, to identify the stops where the object spent at leastminutes_for_a_stopminutes within a distancespatial_radius_km \time stop_radius_factor, from a given point, we can use the following code:>>>fromskmob.preprocessingimportdetection>>># compute the stops for each individual in the TrajDataFrame>>>stdf=detection.stay_locations(tdf,stop_radius_factor=0.5,minutes_for_a_stop=20.0,spatial_radius_km=0.2,leaving_time=True)>>># print a portion of the detected stops>>>print(stdf.head())lat         lng            datetime  uid    leaving_datetime
0  39.978030  116.327481 2008-10-23 06:01:37    1 2008-10-23 10:32:53
1  40.013820  116.306532 2008-10-23 11:10:19    1 2008-10-23 23:45:27
2  39.978419  116.326870 2008-10-24 00:21:52    1 2008-10-24 01:47:30
3  39.981166  116.308475 2008-10-24 02:02:31    1 2008-10-24 02:30:29
4  39.981431  116.309902 2008-10-24 02:30:29    1 2008-10-24 03:16:35>>>print('Points of the original trajectory:\t%s'%len(tdf))>>>print('Points of stops:\t\t\t%s'%len(stdf))Points of the original trajectory:	217653
Points of stops:			391A new columnleaving_datetimeis added to theTrajDataFramein order to indicate the time when the user left the stop location. We can then visualize the detected stops using theplot_stopsfunction:>>>m=stdf.plot_trajectory(max_users=1,start_end_markers=False)>>>stdf.plot_stops(max_users=1,map_f=m)Trajectory compressionThe goal of trajectory compression is to reduce the number of trajectory points while preserving the structure of the trajectory. This step results in a significant reduction of the number of trajectory points. In scikit-mobility, we can use one of the methods in thecompressionmodule under thepreprocessingmodule. For instance, to merge all the points that are closer than 0.2km from each other, we can use the following code:>>>fromskmob.preprocessingimportcompression>>># compress the trajectory using a spatial radius of 0.2 km>>>ctdf=compression.compress(tdf,spatial_radius_km=0.2)>>># print the difference in points between original and filtered TrajDataFrame>>>print('Points of the original trajectory:\t%s'%len(tdf))>>>print('Points of the compressed trajectory:\t%s'%len(ctdf))Points of the original trajectory:	217653
Points of the compressed trajectory:	6281Mobility measuresSeveral measures have been proposed in the literature to capture the patterns of human mobility, both at the individual and collective levels. Individual measures summarize the mobility patterns of a single moving object, while collective measures summarize mobility patterns of a population as a whole. scikit-mobility provides a wide set ofmobility measures, each implemented as a function that takes in input aTrajDataFrameand outputs a pandasDataFrame. Individual and collective measures are implemented the inskmob.measure.individualand theskmob.measures.collectivemodules, respectively.For example, the following code compute theradius of gyration, thejump lengthsand thehome locationsof aTrajDataFrame:>>>fromskmob.measures.individualimportjump_lengths,radius_of_gyration,home_location>>># load a TrajDataFrame from an URL>>>url="https://snap.stanford.edu/data/loc-brightkite_totalCheckins.txt.gz">>>df=pd.read_csv(url,sep='\t',header=0,nrows=100000,names=['user','check-in_time','latitude','longitude','location id'])>>>tdf=skmob.TrajDataFrame(df,latitude='latitude',longitude='longitude',datetime='check-in_time',user_id='user')>>># compute the radius of gyration for each individual>>>rg_df=radius_of_gyration(tdf)>>>print(rg_df)uid  radius_of_gyration
0    0         1564.436792
1    1         2467.773523
2    2         1439.649774
3    3         1752.604191
4    4         5380.503250>>># compute the jump lengths for each individual>>>jl_df=jump_lengths(tdf.sort_values(by='datetime'))>>>print(jl_df.head())uid                                       jump_lengths
0    0  [19.640467328877936, 0.0, 0.0, 1.7434311010381...
1    1  [6.505330424378251, 46.75436600375988, 53.9284...
2    2  [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 3.6410097195943507, 0.0, ...
3    3  [3861.2706300798827, 4.061631313492122, 5.9163...
4    4  [15511.92758595804, 0.0, 15511.92758595804, 1....Note that for some measures, such asjump_length, theTrajDataFramemust be order in increasing order by the columndatetime(see the documentation for the measures that requires this conditionhttps://scikit-mobility.github.io/scikit-mobility/reference/measures.html).>>># compute the home location for each individual>>>hl_df=home_location(tdf)>>>print(hl_df.head())uid        lat         lng
0    0  39.891077 -105.068532
1    1  37.630490 -122.411084
2    2  39.739154 -104.984703
3    3  37.748170 -122.459192
4    4  60.180171   24.949728>>># now let's visualize a cloropleth map of the home locations>>>importfolium>>>fromfolium.pluginsimportHeatMap>>>m=folium.Map(tiles='openstreetmap',zoom_start=12,control_scale=True)>>>HeatMap(hl_df[['lat','lng']].values).add_to(m)>>>mCollective generative modelsCollective generative models estimate spatial flows between a set of discrete locations. Examples of spatial flows estimated with collective generative models include commuting trips between neighborhoods, migration flows between municipalities, freight shipments between states, and phone calls between regions.In scikit-mobility, a collective generative model takes in input a spatial tessellation, i.e., a geopandasGeoDataFrame. To be a valid input for a collective model, the spatial tessellation should contain two columns,geometryandrelevance, which are necessary to compute the two variables used by collective algorithms: the distance between tiles and the importance (aka "attractiveness") of each tile. A collective algorithm produces aFlowDataFramethat contains the generated flows and the spatial tessellation. scikit-mobility implements the most common collective generative algorithms:theGravitymodel;theRadiationmodel.Gravity modelThe classGravity, implementing the Gravity model, has two main methods:fit, which calibrates the model's parameters using aFlowDataFrame;generate, which generates the flows on a given spatial tessellation.Load the spatial tessellation and a data set of real flows in aFlowDataFrame:>>>fromskmob.utilsimportutils,constants>>>importgeopandasasgpd>>>fromskmob.models.gravityimportGravity>>>importnumpyasnp>>># load a spatial tessellation>>>url_tess=skmob.utils.constants.NY_COUNTIES_2011>>>tessellation=gpd.read_file(url_tess).rename(columns={'tile_id':'tile_ID'})>>># load the file with the real fluxes>>>fdf=skmob.FlowDataFrame.from_file(skmob.utils.constants.NY_FLOWS_2011,tessellation=tessellation,tile_id='tile_ID',sep=",")>>># compute the total outflows from each location of the tessellation (excluding self loops)>>>tot_outflows=fdf[fdf['origin']!=fdf['destination']].groupby(by='origin',axis=0)[['flow']].sum().fillna(0)>>>tessellation=tessellation.merge(tot_outflows,left_on='tile_ID',right_on='origin').rename(columns={'flow':'tot_outflow'})Instantiate a Gravity model object and generate synthetic flows:>>># instantiate a singly constrained Gravity model>>>gravity_singly=Gravity(gravity_type='singly cons/tetrained')>>>print(gravity_singly)Gravity(name="Gravity model", deterrence_func_type="power_law", deterrence_func_args=[-2.0], origin_exp=1.0, destination_exp=1.0, gravity_type="singly constrained")>>># start the generation of the synthetic flows>>>np.random.seed(0)>>>synth_fdf=gravity_singly.generate(tessellation,tile_id_column='tile_ID',tot_outflows_column='tot_outflow',relevance_column='population',out_format='flows')>>># print a portion of the synthetic flows>>>print(synth_fdf.head())origin destination  flow
0  36019       36101   101
1  36019       36107    66
2  36019       36059  1041
3  36019       36011   151
4  36019       36123    33Fit the parameters of the Gravity model from theFlowDataFrameand generate the synthetic flows:>>># instantiate a Gravity object (with default parameters)>>>gravity_singly_fitted=Gravity(gravity_type='singly constrained')>>>print(gravity_singly_fitted)Gravity(name="Gravity model", deterrence_func_type="power_law", deterrence_func_args=[-2.0], origin_exp=1.0, destination_exp=1.0, gravity_type="singly constrained")>>># fit the parameters of the Gravity from the FlowDataFrame>>>gravity_singly_fitted.fit(fdf,relevance_column='population')>>>print(gravity_singly_fitted)Gravity(name="Gravity model", deterrence_func_type="power_law", deterrence_func_args=[-1.9947152031914186], origin_exp=1.0, destination_exp=0.6471759552223144, gravity_type="singly constrained")>>># generate the synthetics flows>>>np.random.seed(0)>>>synth_fdf_fitted=gravity_singly_fitted.generate(tessellation,tile_id_column='tile_ID',tot_outflows_column='tot_outflow',relevance_column='population',out_format='flows')>>># print a portion of the synthetic flows>>>print(synth_fdf_fitted.head())origin destination  flow
0  36019       36101   102
1  36019       36107    66
2  36019       36059  1044
3  36019       36011   152
4  36019       36123    33Plot the real flows and the synthetic flows:>>>m=fdf.plot_flows(min_flow=100,flow_exp=0.01,flow_color='blue')>>>synth_fdf_fitted.plot_flows(min_flow=1000,flow_exp=0.01,map_f=m)Radiation modelThe Radiation model is parameter-free and has only one method:generate. Given a spatial tessellation, the synthetic flows can be generated using theRadiationclass as follows:>>>fromskmob.models.radiationimportRadiation>>># instantiate a Radiation object>>>radiation=Radiation()>>># start the simulation>>>np.random.seed(0)>>>rad_flows=radiation.generate(tessellation,tile_id_column='tile_ID',tot_outflows_column='tot_outflow',relevance_column='population',out_format='flows_sample')>>># print a portion of the synthetic flows>>>print(rad_flows.head())origin destination   flow
0  36019       36033  11648
1  36019       36031   4232
2  36019       36089   5598
3  36019       36113   1596
4  36019       36041    117Individual generative modelsThe goal of individual generative models of human mobility is to create a population of agents whose mobility patterns are statistically indistinguishable from those of real individuals. An individual generative model typically generates a synthetic trajectory corresponding to a single moving object, assuming that an object is independent of the others.scikit-mobility implements the most common individual generative models, such as theExploration and Preferential Returnmodel and its variants, andDITRAS. Each generative model is a python class with a public methodgenerate, which starts the generation of synthetic trajectories.The following code generate synthetic trajectories using theDensityEPRmodel:>>>fromskmob.models.eprimportDensityEPR>>># load a spatial tesellation on which to perform the simulation>>>url=skmob.utils.constants.NY_COUNTIES_2011>>>tessellation=gpd.read_file(url)>>># starting and end times of the simulation>>>start_time=pd.to_datetime('2019/01/01 08:00:00')>>>end_time=pd.to_datetime('2019/01/14 08:00:00')>>># instantiate a DensityEPR object>>>depr=DensityEPR()>>># start the simulation>>>tdf=depr.generate(start_time,end_time,tessellation,relevance_column='population',n_agents=100)>>>print(tdf.head())uid                   datetime        lat        lng
0    1 2019-01-01 08:00:00.000000  42.452018 -76.473618
1    1 2019-01-01 08:32:30.108708  42.170344 -76.306260
2    1 2019-01-01 09:09:11.760703  43.241550 -75.435903
3    1 2019-01-01 10:00:22.832309  42.170344 -76.306260
4    1 2019-01-01 14:00:25.923314  42.267915 -77.383591>>>print(tdf.parameters){'model': {'class': <function DensityEPR.__init__ at 0x7f70ce0a7e18>, 'generate': {'start_date': Timestamp('2019-01-01 08:00:00'), 'end_date': Timestamp('2019-01-14 08:00:00'), 'gravity_singly': {}, 'n_agents': 100, 'relevance_column': 'population', 'random_state': None, 'verbose': True}}}PrivacyMobility data is sensitive since the movements of individuals can reveal confidential personal information or allow the re-identification of individuals in a database, creating serious privacy risks. In the literature, privacy risk assessment relies on the concept of re-identification of a moving object in a database through an attack by a malicious adversary. A common framework for privacy risk assessment assumes that during the attack a malicious adversary acquires, in some way, the access to an anonymized mobility data set, i.e., a mobility data set in which the moving object associated with a trajectory is not known. Moreover, it is assumed that the malicious adversary acquires, in some way, information about the trajectory (or a portion of it) of an individual represented in the acquired data set. Based on this information, the risk of re-identification of that individual is computed estimating how unique that individual's mobility data are with respect to the mobility data of the other individuals represented inthe acquired data set.scikit-mobility provides several attack models, each implemented as a python class. For example in a location attack model, implemented in theLocationAttackclass, the malicious adversary knows a certain number of locations visited by an individual, but they do not know the temporal order of the visits. To instantiate aLocationAttackobject we can run the following code:>>>importskmob>>>fromskmob.privacyimportattacks>>>at=attacks.LocationAttack(knowledge_length=2)The argumentknowledge_lengthspecifies how many locations the malicious adversary knows of each object's movement. The re-identification risk is computed based on the worst possible combination ofknowledge_lengthlocations out of all possible combinations of locations.To assess the re-identification risk associated with a mobility data set, represented as aTrajDataFrame, we specify it as input to theassess_riskmethod, which returns a pandasDataFramethat contains theuidof each object in theTrajDataFrameand the associated re-identification risk as the columnrisk(type: float, range: $[0,1]$  where 0 indicates minimum risk and 1 maximum risk).>>>tdf=skmob.TrajDataFrame.from_file(filename="privacy_toy.csv")>>>tdf_risk=at.assess_risk(tdf)>>>print(tdf_risk.head())uid      risk
0    1  0.333333
1    2  0.500000
2    3  0.333333
3    4  0.333333
4    5  0.250000Since risk assessment may be time-consuming for more massive datasets, scikit-mobility provides the option to focus only on a subset of the objects with the argumenttargets. For example, in the following code, we compute the re-identification risk for the object withuid1 and 2 only:>>>tdf_risk=at.assess_risk(tdf,targets=[1,2])>>>print(tdf_risk)uid      risk
0    1  0.333333
1    2  0.500000Downloading datasetsThedatamodule of scikit-mobility provides users with an easy way to: 1) Download ready-to-use mobility data (e.g., trajectories, flows, spatial tessellations, and auxiliary data); 2) Load and transform the downloaded dataset into standard skmob structures (TrajDataFrame, GeoDataFrame, FlowDataFrame, DataFrame); 3) Allow developers and contributors to add new datasets to the library.Thedatamodule provides three functions:list_datasetsget_dataset_infoload_datasetThe user can download the list of all datasets currently available in the library usinglist_datasets:>>>importskmob>>>fromskmob.data.loadimportlist_datasets>>>list_datasets()['flow_foursquare_nyc',
 'foursquare_nyc',
 'nyc_boundaries',
 'parking_san_francisco',
 'taxi_san_francisco']The user can retrieve information about a specific dataset in the library usingget_dataset_info:>>>importskmob>>>fromskmob.data.loadimportget_dataset_info>>>get_dataset_info("foursquare_nyc"){'name': 'Foursquare_NYC',
 'description': 'Dataset containing the Foursquare checkins of individuals moving in New York City',
 'url': 'http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~zhang_da/pub/dataset_tsmc2014.zip',
 'hash': 'cbe3fdab373d24b09b5fc53509c8958c77ff72b6c1a68589ce337d4f9a80235b',
 'auth': 'no',
 'data_type': 'trajectory',
 'download_format': 'zip',
 'sep': '   ',
 'encoding': 'ISO-8859-1'}Finally, the user can download a specific dataset usingload_dataset:>>>importskmob>>>fromskmob.data.loadimportload_dataset,list_datasets>>>tdf_nyc=load_dataset("foursquare_nyc",drop_columns=True)>>>print(tdf_nyc.head())uid        lat        lng                  datetime
0  470  40.719810 -74.002581 2012-04-03 18:00:09+00:00
1  979  40.606800 -74.044170 2012-04-03 18:00:25+00:00
2   69  40.716162 -73.883070 2012-04-03 18:02:24+00:00
3  395  40.745164 -73.982519 2012-04-03 18:02:41+00:00
4   87  40.740104 -73.989658 2012-04-03 18:03:00+00:00Related packagesmovingpandasis a similar package that deals with movement data. Instead of implementing new data structures tailored for trajectories (TrajDataFrame) and mobility flows (FlowDataFrame),movingpandasdescribes a trajectory using ageopandasGeoDataFrame. There is little overlap in the covered use cases and implemented functionality (comparingscikit-mobilitytutorialsandmovingpandastutorials):scikit-mobilityfocuses on computing human mobility metrics, generating synthetic trajectories and assessing privacy risks of mobility datasets.movingpandason the other hand focuses on spatio-temporal data exploration with corresponding functions for data manipulation and analysis.