network-series

The Dangers of Graphic Expression

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A quick correction on The Only Clause Available, published Friday. I wrote there that the US–Iran ceasefire expires Monday. It expires Wednesday, the 22nd — the two-week truce began April 8, and I miscounted by two days. (Ed.: A formal theorist, miscounting.) The prediction itself stands for Wednesday: a renegotiated form of ambiguity rather than … Read more

The Physics of Political Networks

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In a 2015 symposium on big data and measurement, Maggie Penn and I argued that social choice theory is central to the analysis of complex data precisely because any reduction of high-dimensional data into a usable measure involves aggregation, and aggregation involves choices about what to preserve and what to discard.1 We used the Florentine … Read more