Studies on Sui Gu and Van Gogh's correspondence patterns from the empirical researches of human dynamics

Abstract

Current empirical results of human dynamics based on temporal characteristics are discussed. By collecting communications data from Sui Gu and Van Gogh, the inter-event time distribution is found to fit a power law with exponent 1.5, which is in accordance with Barabasi’s conclusion. Moreover, it shows that the inter-event time distribution about two men’s letters for five consecutive years also follows power law distribution with the same exponent. Finally, some simulations are given to show the effectiveness.