Organisational Complexity
Random posts about systems, complexity, data analytics, cybernetics and AI.
I am a complexity theorist interested in many things about organisations and how they work both individually and as populations. The underlying foundation of my research is complex systems theory, and I am interested in theory and its development. I apply my knowledge in diverse areas including public health and food systems.
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Images for Academic Work
I am always searching for places to get images that I can use in my academic work, teaching slides, presentations etc. To help me, and perhaps others, I have made a list of sources. Creative Commons, and their search facility. Every Stock Photo, has the ability to search across different databases with a number of…
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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.