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I apply complexity theory and complex networks analysis to the operations of organisations and groups of organisations. Also interested in the role of technology including, AI, machine learning, blockchain, and other analytical methods.
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Category Archives: Networks
Total Systemic Failure?
My new paper, “Total Systemic Failure?”, is out (this link should get you a free copy for a limited time). I wanted to write something that was more a big picture look at how the world is working. Or perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Networks, Politics, Science Blog
Tagged artificial intelligence, complex systems, complexity, systemic failure
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Updated Daniel Morgan Network
I have processed more of the Daniel Morgan data, and thus have an updated network of the data. Below is a visualisation of the data produced by extracting the network structure from Neo4J using R and iGraph, then saving the … Continue reading
Posted in Data Analytics, Neo4J, Networks
Tagged daniel morgan, gephi, graph database, neo4j, networks
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What do you do with the Panama Data?
The released Panama data comes in the form of a Neo4J database, or the files that you can make one with, seems to me a little tricky to do much with. There is no detail beyond attributes of the different … Continue reading
Posted in Neo4J, Networks, Panama Papers, Politics
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Daniel Morgan Murder
After listening to the Daniel Morgan podcast, Untold, I became really interested in the murder investigation. To help me follow it I started building a network of all the key people, organisations, and events in the case. The networks this … Continue reading
Posted in Neo4J, Politics
Tagged daniel morgan, graph database, neo4j, networks
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Panama Revisted
The people over at The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists have updated the released panama data. Its not clear to me if that is more data than they had already released, or that this time it is a ready made Neo4J … Continue reading
Posted in Neo4J, Panama Papers, Science Blog
Tagged documents, finance, leak, panama, panama papers
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Java Panama Papers Neo4J Network Generator
Further to the first attempt at importing the Panama Papers network data into Neo4J I did a very quick Java program that greats an embedded Neo4J database. It needs a bit of checking as it finds nodes that have the … Continue reading
Posted in Neo4J, Networks, Panama Papers, Politics, Programming
Tagged blairmore, documents, finance, leak, panama papers
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