Episode 21: Modeling pandemics, then on to social contagion

Summary:

We show how a toy metapopulation model produces extremely unpredictable pandemic sizes, spurn the reproduction number, point to full-scale models, look at terrible predictions for social systems, and then start on social contagion proper.

Date:

2015/11/12

Duration:

1:15:26

2015/11/12

1:15:26

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Extra:

Includes archival footage from the Black Plague.