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I am a Senior Lecturer of Systems and Organisation in the School of Management, University of York. He is interested in the application of complex systems theory in organisations, and how organisational culture, memory, and knowledge can be theorised as an emergent property of the system itself. I am also interested in the role of technology including, AI and machine learning on organizational decision making.
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Category Archives: Networks
Supply Chains Need Protection from Covid-19
Covid-19 coronavirus is bound to have significant impact on global supply chains as it impacts all sectors of the economy. See graphs from the Spectator for illustration. It is also somewhat unprecedented as it in many area both supply and … Continue reading
Posted in Commodities, Complexity, Finance, Networks, Politics, Science Blog
Tagged coronavirus, covid, covid-19, deadlock, failure, international, risk, supply chains, systemic, systemic failure
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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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