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How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future 2020

To conventional polls and political analysis, Simulmatics added computer simulations, not unlike, say, the simulations used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to predict the number of new covid-19 cases given various scenarios. A simulation program works by way of endless if/then statements: if this, then that. if/then was the syntax of Simulmatics’ reports

The Hype Machine: The Promise and the Peril of Social Media | Sinan Aral -Hidden Forces
We found that false news was more novel than true news, which suggests that people were more likely to share novel information. Science 2018

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2013 Crises and collective socio-economic phenomena: simple models and challenges Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

Mapping individual behavior in financial markets: synchronization and anticipation 2019