Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread | Sandy Pentland | Talks at Google

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What it covers

Sandy Pentland of MIT presents his book on social physics, which uses big-data studies of how people interact to explain how ideas spread. He describes findings on collective. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel

Talks at Google

Length

54 min 47 sec

Year

2014

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