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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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…
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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 network as a gexf file and importing into Gephi. The network is more complete but…
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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 entities, so that limits us to looking at the relationships alone and it is hard…
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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 produces can be seen here,and you can keep up-to-date with the progress on the network…
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Crypto Wars 2.0
I was invited to give a talk at Oxford University on Crypto Wars 2.0 for the Cyber Security DTC that is jointly ran by Oxford and Royal Holloway. I have given a talk on the Crypto Wars at Durham in the past but this talk was a combination of a revisiting the the Crypto Wars today, but…
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Business History – Banks, births, and tipping points
We have a new piece published in Business History, Complexity in History: modelling the organisational demography of the British banking sector. Continuing our work modelling the British banking sector we have responded to the very interesting comment by J Bissell, “The decline in the British bank population since 1810 obeys a law of negative compound…