Category Archives: Social Physics

More Complexity: What von Neumann said to Shannon

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Michael Batty

TweetMartin Austwick has an interesting piece on defining complexity which is what I am trying to do in my Spatial Complexity course. If you click on the link to the left or here, there is a small comment about entropy … Continue reading →

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Spatial Complexity

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Michael Batty

Tweet Started my new lecture course on Spatial Complexity at Arizona State University. It’s killing me doing relatively new stuff day after day. Lectures are posted after given: Seven so far, the last on Wednesday (2/11) (at http://www.spatialcomplexity.info/

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Ranks of Flows: Network Scaling

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Michael Batty

Tweet The TfL Oyster Card Tube and Train flow volumes over 24 hrs at 666 (don’t worry about the number) hubs reveal classic diurnal peaks but the profiles are far from power laws. If anything, they are lognormal. Watch the Vimeo … Continue reading →

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What Is Social Physics?

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Michael Batty

Tweet Several previous posts suggest that our Science of Cities is more like Biology than Physics but Social Physics has a long history. CASA’s Martin Austwick recently gave an impromptu review from Quetelet’s original definition to Comte’s rebuttal. Useful definitions from … Continue reading →

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