July 4, 2021

Dear friends,
Welcome to the October 10th issue of the Sunday Briefing.

Our hiatus from blogging continues but you can catch up on our recent blog posts. In the G4Sci substack we just published Preferential Attachment and the Barabási-Albert model: The idea that started a scientific revolution where we finalize our exploration of some of the most fundamental theoretical models of networks while over at the V4Sci substack you’ll find Geographical Maps with Cartopy: The US Airline Network where we introduce some of the amazing functionality of Cartopy.

This Friday, Oct 15th we have the next edition of the Advanced Time Series for Everyone webinar. There’s only a few slots left so don’t forget to register so you don’t miss out.

This week we celebrate the Physics Nobel Prize for Complex Systems by exploring the Math of the Amazing Sandpile and how climate models got so accurate they earned a Nobel Prize. We also have a quick guide on explanatory writing and Logging Best Practices.

From the halls of academia we have an exploration of local time of random walks on graphs, the physics of higher-order interactions in complex systems, a large-scale mapping of conspiracy narratives as online harms during the COVID-19 pandemic and a look at Machine-Learning media bias.

Finally, this weeks ‘Data Science Book ’ highlight is “Fundamentals of Data visualization” by C. O. Wilke. As always you can find all the previous book recommendations on our website. In the video of the week we have a tutorial on Docker Tutorial for Beginners.

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Semper discentes,

The D4S Team