The Persistent Myth of the Lone Inventor

51bfJbi7uaL._SL500_AA300_[1]

Contrary to popular belief, invention is a team sport. “Innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.”

Social Norms in Large and Small Networks

umbrellas

A summary of Robert Hanson’s thoughts and implications how community network size impacts social norms

The Value of Being Connected

What are someone’s connections are worth? A recent article on politicians and lobbyists sheds some light on this question…

Beautiful Information All ‘Round

Radial Tree Quarter

The Journal of Social Structure (JoSS) has posted this year’s Visualization Symposium, and they came to us to see what we’ve been cooking up in our lab. From their description of the Visualization Symposium: for all beautiful and informative visualizations, we can cite many goopy messes that fail to inform in any meaningful way.  As… more »