Notes from a Computational Social Scientist

Model Parallelization in Various Languages & Approaches to Concurrent Agent Scheduling

Often I talk about various applications of agent-based modeling (ABM), but rarely are computational approaches discussed. At George Mason, a group of students and professors are…

Modeling Drone Strikes, Piracy, Social Media Networks of ISIS, and Xenophobia

The Math Behind Zombie Attacks

Good news…bad news. The good news is that if there was a zombie attack, you wouldn’t have to worry about…

Journalists holding algorithms accountable

Warning: This blog contains explicit language.

Informal Collaboration in Financial Economics

A classic application of network analysis looks at authorship networks…

Social Change and Trendsetting: How do new movements occur?

Using ABMs to Model Financial Bubbles

Since the early 2000s, researchers have been able to successfully predict markets models…

Network analysis of movie reference connections

Did you ever notice that the opening scene in Raiders of the Ark is similar to the opening scene from Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo? It is the silhouette of the main character, shot from behind, overlooking a mountainous expanse. Did you also notice…