Tag Archives: social epidemiology

People are Biased Against Creative Ideas, Studies Find [via Cornell Chronicle Online]

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Sinan Aral: Social Contagion [Pop Tech 2010]

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Law Professoriate Poster for Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS 2009 @ USC)

As we mentioned in previous posts, Seadragon is a really cool product. Please note load times may vary depending upon your specific machine configuration as well as the strength of your internet connection. For those not familiar with how to operate it … Continue reading

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Programming Dynamic Models in Python-Part 3: Outbreak on a Network

In this post, we will continue building on the basic models we discussed in the first and second tutorials. If you haven’t had a chance to take a look at them yet, definitely go back and at least skim them, … Continue reading

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The American Law Professoriate in Michigan Law Quad Notes – Katz, Gubler, Zelner, Provins & Ingall

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Christakis and Fowler in Wired Magazine

Today marks the official release of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis & James H. Fowler.  There has been some really good publicity for the book including the … Continue reading

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Positive Legal Theory and a Model of Intellectual Diffusion on the American Legal Academy [Repost from 4/22]

For the third installment of posts related to Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate, we offer a Netlogo simulation of intellectual diffusion on the network we previously visualized.  As noted in prior posts, we are … Continue reading

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State Level Obesity Trends from the CDC Website

It has been light blogging while we finish some projects here in Ann Arbor.  In the meantime, here is an interesting visual offered by CDC website. Also, check out an important paper in this vein by Nicholas Christakis & James Fowler … Continue reading

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The S.I.R. Model — A Simple Model With Applications to Swine Flu, etc.

  Last week we offered a model of intellectual diffusion built upon a standard fare social epidemiology model.  Given recent events within the United States, Mexico and potentially worldwide, we thought it would be worthwhile to highlight the classic S.I.R. (Susceptible, … Continue reading

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised — But Will it Come from HLS or YLS ? A Social Network Analysis of the Legal Academy (Part IV)

This is the final installment of posts related to Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate. Thanks for your emails. Here is the plot we provide within the paper.  As a general proposition, we believe this … Continue reading

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Model of Intellectual Diffusion Upon the American Legal Academy

For the third installment of posts related to Reproduction of Hierarchy? A Social Network Analysis of the American Law Professoriate, we offer a Netlogo simulation of intellectual diffusion on the network we previously visualized.  As noted in prior posts, we are … Continue reading

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