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Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science Alex Pentland
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

Videos are now available from the YOW! May 7, 2014 - Jeff Swensen for The New York TimesStudents at Brashear High School in Pittsburgh during a Saturday prep class for the Advanced Placement physics exam. Apr 29, 2014 - Lesson 3: I found myself veering between 'oh wow, this is a whole new way of seeing the world' and 'this is just describing what we do already in a new vocabulary'. The typical social experiment that lends itself to analysis will be in relatively small and well-controlled communities (say, testing the implementation of a new policy). Feb 17, 2014 - In fact, if you want to read more about sociometric tagging to measure engagement, and other group tools, you might want to read: “Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread: The Lessons from a New Science” by MIT Prof. The required course work in math, chemistry, and physics in the freshman year may seem like weed out courses to some, but without a strong background in those basics a student may be lost in the following coursework. Alex Pentland: Social Physics - How Good Ideas Spread - The Lessons Learned From a New Science. Mar 5, 2014 - On this episode Cristina and I discuss the new book by Alex Pentland called Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science. Apr 7, 2014 - Or so you'd think if you're a physicist. For more on the amazing ways human social networks improve problem solving take a look at Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread-The Lessons from a New Science. Related videos from youtube on smashits.com. So shake them is not really there. This is not only boring but also counterproductive, constraining engagement with the scientific cutting edge and stifling the creation of new and useful knowledge. But interestingly, there is a large opposition to this trend of hardening the social sciences, and this opposition is particularly pronounced towards physicists who take their knowledge to work on data about social systems. Jan 23, 2014 - One reason weed-out courses seem to be standard practice, Nash says, is that they come from the idea that educational institutions don't want to waste resources on students who are going to eventually drop out. Alex Pentland spoke at Dominican University of California. Jul 23, 2013 - The social sciences have stagnated. Mar 7, 2014 - From one of the world's leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of colle.