On february 18, the center for technology innovation at the brookings institution hosted an event to discuss social physics and the uses of big data in providing explanations for human behavior. Reactions financial decision making, social influence, political attitudes, purchasing behavior, health are the consequences which are to be analyzed, yet taking that there is an engine that drives social physics. The naked future and social physics the new york times. How good ideas spreadthe lessons from a new science. Guide to mobile data analytics in refugee scenarios the data for. Mar 07, 2014 from one of the worlds leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence. Social physics or sociophysics is a field of science which uses mathematical tools inspired by physics to understand the behavior of human crowds. Inferring friendship network structure by using mobile phone data. Jan 27, 2015 social physics will change the way we think about how we learn and how our social groups workand can be made to work better, at every level of society. How good ideas spread the lessons from a new science by alex pentland the penguin press, 2014 sensor rich mobile devices meet big data.
More companies are investing in common spaces and team building events to support networking\but networking doesnt seem to improve performance in competitive. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read social physics. Big data and management academy of management journal. Pentlands social physics is a major contribution to this field. Pentlands social physics is subtitled lessons from a new science, and.
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