10/02/2014

Videos, Videos and More Videos on Complexity, Agent-Based Modeling and All Things Complex

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 My colleague, Emma Uprichard, recently sent along the following link to a compendium of videos on all things complexity science and compt...
13/01/2014

Big Brains. Small Films. Benoît Mandelbrot, The Father of Fractals

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My friend and colleague, Frederic Hafferty (at Mayo) sent me this video on Mandelbrodt.  I very much like it, as it is short and sweet and v...
19/12/2013

Non-Equilibrium Social Science

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A major issue in quantitative social science today is dealing more effectively with, as Emma Uprichard calls it, our data saturated ...
10/12/2013

Big Data, Big Data and More Big Data

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As my colleague, Emma Uprichard, has pointed out in a series of recent articles, we live, today, in a data-saturated-plastic-present-- fo...

Complexity Map Wins Award for the Mapping Science

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I am happy to announce that my complexity map was chosen to be one of the seven maps representing this year's iteration of the Mappi...
19/08/2013

Data Stories: 25 Podcasts on Data Visualization by Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner

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Data Stories A few weeks ago, my colleague and friend, Emma Uprichard , emailed me about a series of podcasts on data visualization tha...
27/07/2013

The mysteries of life and the cosmos are too complex, even for science; so humility please in all endeavors

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Back in 2008, Stuart Kauffman, the world-renown complexity scientist and biologist, published a very interesting book,  Reinventing the Sac...
13/07/2013

New Version of Complexity Map---The Complexity Map Version 5

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Hello everyone!  As you can see above,  I have (once again) updated my map of the complexity sciences. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE INTERNE...
09/07/2013

social science departments need to innovate the teaching of method by embracing new approaches to big data, statistics, computational modeling and complexity

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The title of this post says it all: social science departments need to innovate the teaching of method by embracing new approaches to big da...
08/07/2013

The Complexities of Space and Place

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I remember, back in the days of postmodernism, a colleague, a geographer, was giving a talk on postmodernism and geography.  A few of my col...
24/06/2013

Complexity Map Translated into Portuguese

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Complexity Map Translated into Portuguese My complexity map was recently translated into Portuguese by  Rosângela Ap . Rosân...
11/05/2013

Punching Clouds; Or, Complexity Science Meets Public Decision Making

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I just finished reading through two excellent books by Lasse Gerrits . Gerrits is an associate professor at the Department of Public Admin...
30/04/2013

Maurizio Galimberti and Dynamical Complexity Photography

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I recently came across the work of artist and photographer, Maurizio Galimberti.   I was instantly blown away.  To me, Galimberti's wo...
24/04/2013

Keynes Was Right: Government Austerity in Times of Trouble is a Bad Idea

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I am sure many of you have seen the recent study by Thomas Herndon, a 28-year-old economics grad student at UMass Amherst.  If you have not,...
12/04/2013

Complex Systems Are Not Networks; They are Cases.

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Let me be clear right from the 'get go' of this post!  I am a huge fan of network science! I regularly teach the stuff in my col...