Modelling 🦠 Coronavirus – Quarantine?!

As coronavirus is threatening to become a global pandemic, I’ve built seven epidemiological models of increasing complexity in order to illustrate how infectious diseases get transmitted over time. Among others, I try to answer the questions of what is the scientific rationale behind a surgical mask or an all-out quarantine. This is a video commentaryContinue reading “Modelling 🦠 Coronavirus – Quarantine?!”

Insurgent Dynamics: A systematic analysis of social unrest using the GDELT Event database

Click here if you prefer to read this post on Medium.com (5 minute read). Click here to look at the data visualization only on visualizing.org. In this post I have rekindled one of my earlier data analysis and visualization projects from last year, about my explorations of conflict and insurgence dynamics using data from theContinue reading “Insurgent Dynamics: A systematic analysis of social unrest using the GDELT Event database”