02/12/2014

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See my recent article in THEORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY journal where I reflect on my fifteen years as a complexity scientist. The arti...
10/10/2014

A Review of Capra and Luisi's The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision

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As of 2014, there has been much written in the complexity sciences on the all-purpose topics of complex systems and networks and their relat...
29/05/2014

"Intersections: Brian Castellani and Dante Rodriguez" Art Show June 20th – July 18th CWAL Gallery, Cleveland

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I have an upcoming art show with a colleague of mine at the CWAL Gallery, located in the new 78 th  Street Galleries – a large space, wi...
14/05/2014

Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare Conference (Nov 13th and 14th, 2014)

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SYSTEMS AND COMPLEXITY SCIENCE FOR HEALTHCARE Working with Joachim Sturmberg as our lead, my colleagues and I are hosting one of th...
28/04/2014

The Limits of Social Engineering: A Complexity Science Critique

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T here is a new book out by Alex "Sandy" Pentland . As most know, " Pentland directs MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory and t...
14/04/2014

The Limits of Statistics, Yet Another Example. Will Anything Chage?

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Sometimes it seems that--in contrast to Kuhn and the notion of paradigm shift--no matter what is done to advance the state of things, the ag...
12/04/2014

Case-Based Complexity, Nonlinear Statistical Mechanics, and Modeling the Dynamics of Temporal Social Complexity

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Check out an EARLY VIEW of our new case-based complexity article in Complexity .  It is third in a series of papers outlining the mathematic...
06/03/2014

BIG DATA, little questions!

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Check out the following article by Emma Uprichard on Big Data!  BIG DATA, LITTLE QUESTIONS? It is a great essay, as it points to the imp...
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...