• PoCS: Peter Sheridan Dodds's Principles of Complex Systems, Fall 2016

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Slide Set 06: Mechanisms leading to power-law size distributions: Part 1

Slide Set 05: Zipfian measure­ments
 
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Slide Set 07: Mechanisms leading to power-law size distributions: Part 2

We travel the random road to the Snormals. And we have a picnic and a nap.

Simple, flat slides: 12M
Printable handout: 11M
Slides with all reveals for lectures: 28M

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04: Zipf's Law and Randomness as a Mechanism

05: Zipfery, random walk, unexpected transfigurations



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