Organizational Complexity
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President Trump Twitter Word Cloud Last 2000 tweets
Had another crack at this, its interesting to see what Trump’s tweets are doing. This is using R and Twitter4J again, so more like the first one that I did.
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Crypto Wars Podcasts
My first attempts at podcasts for this site, produced sometime ago on YouTube, were two videos about the Crypto Wars. This is the story about the attempts to control the use of strong encryption in the late 1990s, and then again in more recent years. From about 2014 to 2018. This includes things like the…
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Complexity and the collapse of the financial system – from the Archive
Originally Posted on January 14, 2015 by Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience by Philip Garnett and Brett Cherry Finance influences everything, from the growth of businesses and employment to capital and even public services. As the world becomes increasingly subject to the all-encompassing influence of financialisation, it is confronted with problems that require new perspectives from studies in complex systems.…
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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 how it isn’t working. I think there is a problem that the world is stuck…
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Trump Twitter Word Cloud Update
I re-did the President Trump Twitter Word Cloud, the updated word cloud is below. I now have a version of Twitter4J that has the capacity to download the extended tweets of 280 chars. Also trumps tweeting is pretty high volume so the topics have changed through time.
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Donald Trump Twitter Word Map
I used twitter4j and R to make a word map of Donald Trump’s tweets. I thought it would be interesting to see what his most used words are. The program downloads 3000 of his most resent tweets, unfortunately it cannot download all of the extended mode tweets. Only the first 140 characters. It wasn’t that…