Without "what if?" models, data is dead, says Peter Sloot at #CCS2019

Opening speech from Guido Caldarelli 贵多, President of the CSS and an Academic Editor for Complexity #CCS2019

Peter Ho, the father of complexity science in Singapore, giving the first plenary talk on the complexity challenges this City-State is facing today #CCS2019 Conference on Complex Systems 2019

#CCS2019 keynote Beom Jun Kim argues that size matters (but not from *that* perspective) Conference on Complex Systems 2019

#CCS2019 keynote Rika Preiser discusses implications of complex systems for sustainability of socio-ecological systems Conference on Complex Systems 2019

Guo Lei on control of complex dynamical systems #CCS2019 Conference on Complex Systems 2019

Afternoon keynote Lei Guo discusses systems and control (some very familiar models here) #CCS2019 Conference on Complex Systems 2019

Complexity science made in Latin America 🇨🇴. Felipe Montes talks about seedings strategies for spreading processes in social networks, "without a supercomputer" 👍. Conference on Complex Systems 2019 #CCS2019

Jefferson Tan captures the globalization of the world over time using the GDELT dataset #CCS2019 Conference on Complex Systems 2019

“Rank Dynamics of #Twitter Data”, Dante R. Pérez Méndez presenting our work in progress with Gerardo Iñiguez Alfredo Morales et al. We study how language statistics change with different scales: temporal, geographical, grammatical. Which scale matters most? #CCS2019

Claudia Wagner on perception biases in social networks #CCS2019

#CCS2019 starts!....happy to be part of this scientific event!

Shout to #CCS2019 young scientists: I’ll be hiring in the next months, if you’re interested in disease epidemics come and talk to me! Today presenting in LHR-TR+12 (livestock diseases) and Thu AM at Challenges in epi modeling (cellphone data, Ebola, HIV) epicx-lab.com

Marc Barthelemy speaking about the challenges for science of cities at #CCS2019. Key takeaways: -we don't have a clear understanding of fundamental aspects of cities. -there's still a lot of work to be done to be able to make robust predictions of different aspects of cities.

Humanity’s best hope for confronting the climate crisis is illuminated in Roland Kupers' new book A CLIMATE POLICY REVOLUTION, available now from Harvard University Press Harvard University Press International bit.ly/3awxu2c

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