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Area of Science:

Computational Social Science
Network Science
Human Dynamics

Background:

Individual human activity is often bursty, following heavy-tailed distributions.
Existing models struggle to capture human activity patterns across diverse timescales.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel model for human activity intensity rate.
To capture human dynamics across multiple timescales.
To extract population heterogeneity in activity patterns.

Main Methods:

Analysis of a large-scale online chatting dataset (5,549,570 users).
Development of a novel intensity rate model for individual activity.
Validation of the model across five orders of magnitude in timescales.

Main Results:

Individual activity patterns vary significantly with timescales.
The proposed model precisely captures human dynamics across multiple timescales.
The model successfully extracts individual-specific components of activity patterns, revealing population heterogeneity.

Conclusions:

The novel model provides a more accurate representation of human activity dynamics than existing approaches.
Understanding timescale-dependent activity patterns is crucial for large-scale social dynamics.
The model offers insights into population heterogeneity and has implications for social interaction studies.