I woke up in the middle of a peaceful sleep last night only to begin fretting about the fact that I completely undersold Isabel Merielles’ show in yesterday’s post. Remember when I said the posters she chose were beautiful? Well why the heck wouldn’t I want to share them with you?! Very sorry. Here you ...
By now you may know that I’ve become minorly obsessed with data visualization and network science as a result of my various adventures around campus. Of course, obsessed is a relative term and there are definitely some other folks here who have me beat in that department. Isabel Meirelles would be one of them. We ...
Happy day-after-super-Tuesday, everybody. If you’re as political as I am, you may not have realized that yesterday was different than any other day, but apparently it was. Last night, we got a chance to see if money really does talk, as the fab-four of remaining republican hopefuls — Romney, Paul, Santorum, and Gingrich — awaited ...
Northeastern’s own network scientist Alessandro Vespignani weighs in on the ever-enticing question of predicting the future. Vespignani joins a blogger, a businessman, a tarot card reader, a psychologist and a climate scientist on today’s episode of Big Picture Science, the NPR-syndicated science and technology podcast. Before the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, Vespignani predicted the spread of ...
Albert-László Barabasi is a world leader in the emerging field of network science. In his research, Barabasi seeks to understand the properties of various types of systems, be they biological, information-based, technological or even social. “There are some common organizing principles that describe these different types of networks, he says. “In many ways these networks ...
Here’s a cool new FB app from computer sciences professor, Alan Mislove. It’s called Friendlist Manager and it makes using lists on the social-network (a.k.a. time sink) a whole lot easier (as if you needed anything on FB to be easier, since you don’t already spend enough time there). Mislove uses network information to build ...
Just had a chat with a network science dude and he told me about this cool website where you can visualize where people are moving to and from. It was created for Forbes magazine in 2008 around the beginning of the recession to give people a sense of the migration implications of the changing economic ...
The library has an awesome new exhibit up called “Places & Spaces: Mapping Science.” They’ve got dozens of maps describing a variety of scientific concepts and trends, like one spider web of connections between scientific disciplines and a crazy topographical visualization of patent patterns across the globe. This is a particularly interesting concept to me ...