David Hyde talks with Alex “Sandy” Pentland, a professor and data scientist at MIT, about his new book "Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread — The Lessons From A New Science."
How Good Ideas Spread: A New Social Science Based On Big Data
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Alex “Sandy” Pentland's book "Social Physics."