Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread - the Lessons from a New Science

By Chris Arney. 2014

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Critiquing Big Data: Politics, Ethics, Epistemology (2014, background): “Likewise, in Social Physics , Pentland (2014) outlines his goal to gather “the digital bread crumbs we all leave behind as we move through the world—call records, credit card transactions, and GPS location fixes” (2014, 16) to predict who is more likely to get diabetes and “whether someone is the…”
Critical Data Studies: A dialog on data and space (2016, background): “Social physics (today being marketed as ‘‘a new science’’ (Pentland, 2014)) dates back to at least the early 1800s and possibly earlier (Sinclair’s work on Scottish population statistics in 1791, quoted by Porter, 1986: 24).”
The production of prediction: What does machine learning want? (2015, background): “But neither Her nor the recent popular accounts of machine learning (Mayer-Schönberger and Cukier, 2013; Pentland, 2014) tells us much about the work of prediction.”
The ethics of smart cities and urban science (2016, background): “While current urban science undoubtedly draws on positivistic ideas, notably that emanating within social physics which seeks to identify the social determinates and ‘laws’ of cities while largely ignoring the longer canon and critique [30,31]—and is open to the same criticisms as earlier manifestat”