Tim Berners-Lee talks about how an open Internet is key to driving innovation – YouTube
New! Cambridge Journals Online – NETWORK SCIENCE
Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity
How complexity leads to simplicity
University of California Merced ecologist Eric Berlow says zoom out before you zoom in. 3 minutes!
Les Misérables Co-occurrence
Given that an adjacency matrix is a natural representation of a network, a natural visualization is to show the matrix! Forget the tinker toys, who needs nodes and arcs? Amazing retro network visualization demonstrated using an old war horse sample network and d3.js from Mike Bostock. Check it!
SONIC director to deliver keynote at GWU Crossroads seminar series
Contractor to deliver a keynote titled “Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 21st Century” on April 5, 2012 as part of the Crossroads Seminar Series at George Washington University. For more information go to http://departments.columbian.gwu.edu/orgsci/newsevents/crossroads
Graphs Beyond the Hairball
By Robert Kosara On
Dual-representation, matrix/node-link diagrams and “node quilts.” Read more…
Julia, I Love You
Julia is a new language for scientific computing that is winning praise from a slew of very smart people … As a language, it has lofty design goals, which, if attained, will make it noticeably superior to Matlab, R and Python for scientific programming. … Remarkably, Julia seems to be on its way to meeting those goals.
SONIC lab director presents at UC Davis Translational Science Seminar
Contractor presented a talk titled “Some assembly required” Organizing in the 21st century” at the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center’s Translational Science Seminar on March 21, 2012. More information can be found here: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/ctsc/
Big Data Jobs
How to get a hot job in big data
By Dan Tynan, InfoWorld, March 19, 2012
Big data is reshaping business IT. The big data revolution is creating a new breed of business-IT jobs — and threatening to destabilize dyed-in-the-wool IT careers.