Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter

by Alex Pentland

Book Overview

From one of the world's leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT's Alex "Sandy" Pentland. Over years of groundbreaking experiments, he has distilled remarkable discoveries significant enough to become the bedrock of a whole new scientific field: social physics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143126334
• ISBN13: 9780143126331
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher