DB1B

I learned about a “big” data source for understanding air travel at the eScience incubator project talks last week, the DB1B database, aka the Airline Origin and Destination Survey. This is a 10% sample of all tickets for flights originating in the US, released quarterly since the 1993: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=289&DB_Short_Name=Origin%20and%20Destination%20Survey This must be good for something in global health.