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Pandemic geometry
SPaTo Visual Explorer
The Eyjafjallajökull Event
Dynamics of Vaccination with Imperfect Knowledge
Tour de Sys: The Traveler's View of a Network
Community Structure in Multi-Scale Transportation Networks
Travel Bugs, Geocaching and European Traffic Networks
Impact of Social Heterogeneities in Epidemic Outbreaks
Panic Reactions and Global Disease Dynamics
Influenza A(H1N1) Outbreak 2009
The Scaling Laws of Human Travel
Forecast and Control of Epidemics in a Globalized World
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Media Coverage
Disease Daily
Creating Connections: How Transportation Data can Predict Pandemics
(Feb 26, 2013; german)
The Atlantic
We've Been Looking at the Spread of Global Pandemics All Wrong
(Feb 25, 2013; german)
NPR, Krulwich wonders
A 'Whom Do You Hang With?' Map Of America
(April 17, 2013; german)
ZEIT Wissen
Netzwerkforschung: Total vernetzt
(Jan 25, 2010; german)
CBS Numb3rs
Scratch
(Jan 8, 2010; see also
McCormick News Article
)
Spiegel Online
Netzwerkforschung: So tickt das Wir
(Dec 26, 2009; german)
New York Times
Quotation of the Day
The Creative Generalist
Q&A interview
on the
“Where's George” study
(Jan 2008)
Influenza A(H1N1) Outbreak 2009
Project Page
New York Times
Predicting the Flu With the Aid of (George) Washington
(pdf)
LA Times
Scientists see this flu strain as relatively mild
Complete Media Coverage
Community Structure in Large Scale Transportation Networks
Project Page
Financial Times Germany
Die Spur der Scheine
(pdf)
The Scaling Laws of Human Travel
Project Page
Max Planck Video Documentation
Viruses on the trace of money
Nature News & Views
Travel: Fitting the bill
The New York Times Magazine
Money-Circulation Science
The Guardian
Money talks: tracking dollar bills helps explain how diseases spread
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Die Gesetze des Reisens
(german)
Complete Media Coverage
Forecast and Control of Epidemics in a Globalized World
Project Page
Max Planck Video Documentation
Around the world in eighty days - infections jet around the world
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Vorhersagemodell über die Ausbreitung von Epidemien entwickelt
(pdf, german)
GEO Magazin
Mathematik: Mit SARS um die Welt
(german)
Complete Media Coverage
Influenza A(H1N1) Outbreak (“Swine Flu”)
National Public Radio
ABC7 Chicago
The Scaling Laws of Human Travel
Google Current News
ZDF heute nacht
(german)
Forecast and Control of Epidemics in a Globalized World
ZDF heute
(german)