Archives: November 2008

Sun Nov 30, 2008

Ushahidi

Great idea for handling public information in a crisis, called Ushahidi, though I wonder how practical it is. There are several systems that work the other way: what about combining the two? More...

Posted by: Simulation- the Weblog on Nov 30, 08 | 9:10 am | Profile

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Accuracy vs effectiveness in counter-insurgency

Just come across an article in JASSS, based on a simple model of how governments might respond to insurgency. More...

Posted by: Simulation- the Weblog on Nov 30, 08 | 8:55 am | Profile

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Tue Nov 25, 2008

How does data scale

Fascinating posting on Good Math, Bad Math arguing that we have much more data now, and that we can use this to discover new relationships, but at the same time there are new problems.
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Posted by: Simulation- the Weblog on Nov 25, 08 | 8:36 am | Profile

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Sun Nov 02, 2008

Games that make a difference

I chaired a meeting at Birkbeck College yesterday as part of the London Games Festival Fringe, called 'Games that make a difference' More...

Posted by: Simulation- the Weblog on Nov 02, 08 | 6:29 pm | Profile

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