[eng] Like Columbus mistook America for India, we stepped into the era of misinformation mistaking it for the era of big data. Since the digital revolution in the early ’90s we started producing such a huge amount of data that we do not even know how to find our compass anymore. However, not all this data is available and accessible. In this thesis, by navigating through the seas of available, open and even purchased data on board of our knowledge of physics and complex systems, we try to draw some new routes and shortcuts to study human mobility in different contexts, scales and applications. We first introduce a simple method to treat Twitter data on the Venezuelan exodus to show how this data can consistently reproduce and uncover many d...