{"id":306,"date":"2011-04-09T22:56:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T05:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.dds.nl\/?p=306"},"modified":"2011-04-09T23:40:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T06:40:10","slug":"mathematical-sociology-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/mathematical-sociology-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical sociology in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A good couple of weeks for mathematical sociology, at least in terms of visibility. Scientific American has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=duncan-watts-book#\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with &#8220;mathematical sociologist&#8221; Duncan Watts about his new book<\/a>. He also has a couple of interesting things to say about the differences in prestige between social science and the natural sciences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition, Nature News has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2011\/110330\/full\/471566a.html\" target=\"_blank\">a nice piece about computational social science<\/a> (mostly social network analysis actually), and its usefulness in predicting violent conflict. It includes Kathleen Carley, who was the keynote speaker at this year&#8217;s Sunbelt conference, talking about her work for the Pentagon. But not even Nature gets everything right: they explain betweenness centrality as having &#8220;lots of direct connections to other people within the network.&#8221; Oh well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>By the way: interestingly, both articles are in a way about the limits to prediction in social science. A fascinating topic; I hope to be able to come back to it in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good couple of weeks for mathematical sociology, at least in terms of visibility. Scientific American has an interview with &#8220;mathematical sociologist&#8221; Duncan Watts about his new book. He also has a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}