“Visualizations help people understand what we are doing”


Sep 4, 2018

New ideas in complexity science

 

On May 24th, 2018, the First External Faculty Meeting of the Hub started with a public conference.

 

In short talks complexity scientists from all around globe shared their visions on the question “Complexity: Where do we go from here?”

 

What are the open, the most pressing, the most promising questions to an understanding of complexity and Big Data?

 

Find the talks of all conference participants (in order of appearance) on our Youtube channel in the playlist of the conference.

 

An overview with photographs of the event and links to all available slides can be found here.

 

Vito D. P. Servedio

 

“How can we communicate complexity science to the public?”

 

 

Communicating science to the general public and non-scientists is always difficult, and complexity science is even harder. This problem is tackled by Vito D. P. Servedio, a data scientist at the Hub.

 

 

The most famous equation of all is E=mc2, Vito starts: It is even printed on t-shirts. But why does the public remember it? Perhaps because of its connection to the atomic bomb, the striking visual imagery, and the fear it induces? Another equation, F=mg (force in newtons = mass times gravity) is just as important, but lacks a good visual link. “You don’t find this on t-shirts,” Vito points out.

 

If even fairly simple science is hard to communicate, complexity science is much worse. But Vito believes it can be done. The secret, he says, is participation. “One simple way f.i. is developing visualisations to allow people to see what a model is doing.”

 

“We have two kinds of people,” he continues. “We have the scientist here who says ‘I don’t need these kinds of things, models are in my mind, I can run the models in my mind’,” Vito says, adding that visualisations “could be the way to address the other 99.99 percent of people to understand better what we are doing.”

 

Like Vittorio Loreto, Vito also shows the video of conference participants building a city out of Lego, a very tangible method of public participation. There is also the possibility of gamification, Vito says, of developing interactive mobile game apps to test out theories. In one game for example, players can attempt to modify and improve the Vienna transport network within a given budget. Players are ranked, adding a competitive element.

 

Vito and his team are developing virtual reality, multi-sensory, immersive gaming techniques, to further improve such games.

 

 

See the video in full lenght here:

 


Publication

V.D.P. Servedio, M. R. Ferreira, N. Reisz, R. Costas, S. Thurner

Scale-free growth in regional scientific capacity building explains long-term scientific dominance

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 167 (2023) 113020

Press

Sturm statt Elfenbeinturm [feat. Hannah Metzler]


Falter, Mar 21, 2023

People

Mar 30, 2023

Stefan Kitzler wins research prize

Publication

J. Chen, E. Mittendorfer-Rutz, L. Berg, M. Noriedam, M. Sijbrandij, P. Klimek

Association of common mental disorders and related multimorbidity with subsequent labor market marginalization among refugee and Swedish-born young adults

Frontiers in Public Health 11 (2023) 1054261

Press

Ursachen für den Antibiotika-Mangel [feat. Peter Klimek]


ORF (ZIB 1), Mar 27, 2023

Research News

Mar 27, 2023

The anatomy of the current antibiotic shortage

Event

CSH Talk by Michael Szell: "Bicycle infrastructure data and networks: Opportunities and limitations"


Apr 04, 2023 | 15:0016:00

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Research News

Mar 27, 2023

The anatomy of the current antibiotic shortage - more details

Publication

S. Daniotti, B. Monechi, E. Ubaldi

A maximum entropy approach for the modelling of car-sharing parking dynamics

Scientific Repots 13 (2023) 2993

Event

CSH Talk by Jan Korbel: "Homophily-based social group formation in a spin-glass self-assembly framework"


Mar 31, 2023 | 15:0016:00

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Press

La contingencia y la movilidad eléctrica [span. | feat. Rafael Prieto-curiel]


Heraldo de México, Mar 28, 2023

Event

CSH Talk by Rafael Prieto-Curiel: "Sustainable mobility in large cities"


Apr 07, 2023 | 15:0016:00

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Publication

V.D.P. Servedio, M. R. Ferreira, N. Reisz, R. Costas, S. Thurner

Scale-free growth in regional scientific capacity building explains long-term scientific dominance

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 167 (2023) 113020

Press

Sturm statt Elfenbeinturm [feat. Hannah Metzler]


Falter, Mar 21, 2023

People

Mar 30, 2023

Stefan Kitzler wins research prize

Publication

J. Chen, E. Mittendorfer-Rutz, L. Berg, M. Noriedam, M. Sijbrandij, P. Klimek

Association of common mental disorders and related multimorbidity with subsequent labor market marginalization among refugee and Swedish-born young adults

Frontiers in Public Health 11 (2023) 1054261

Press

Ursachen für den Antibiotika-Mangel [feat. Peter Klimek]


ORF (ZIB 1), Mar 27, 2023

Research News

Mar 27, 2023

The anatomy of the current antibiotic shortage

Event

CSH Talk by Michael Szell: "Bicycle infrastructure data and networks: Opportunities and limitations"


Apr 04, 2023 | 15:0016:00

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Research News

Mar 27, 2023

The anatomy of the current antibiotic shortage - more details

Publication

S. Daniotti, B. Monechi, E. Ubaldi

A maximum entropy approach for the modelling of car-sharing parking dynamics

Scientific Repots 13 (2023) 2993

Event

CSH Talk by Jan Korbel: "Homophily-based social group formation in a spin-glass self-assembly framework"


Mar 31, 2023 | 15:0016:00

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Press

La contingencia y la movilidad eléctrica [span. | feat. Rafael Prieto-curiel]


Heraldo de México, Mar 28, 2023

Event

CSH Talk by Rafael Prieto-Curiel: "Sustainable mobility in large cities"


Apr 07, 2023 | 15:0016:00

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

People

Mar 30, 2023

Stefan Kitzler wins research prize

Research News

Mar 27, 2023

The anatomy of the current antibiotic shortage

Research News

Mar 27, 2023

The anatomy of the current antibiotic shortage - more details

Research News

Mar 20, 2023

Climate-tech innovation needs corporate investment

Research News

Mar 16, 2023

A new approach to measuring multidirectional polarization

Research News

Mar 16, 2023

How countries can benefit from linking data

News

Mar 15, 2023

Meet the "data magician"

Spotlight

Mar 14, 2023

Irrationally fascinating

News

Mar 13, 2023

Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) - a comment by Bernhard Haslhofer

Research News

Mar 13, 2023

A new and better way to create word lists

News

Mar 6, 2023

CSH takes the lead in supply chain research with ASCII

News

Mar 6, 2023

CSH übernimmt mit ASCII eine Vorreiterrolle in der Lieferkettenforschung

Press

La contingencia y la movilidad eléctrica [span. | feat. Rafael Prieto-curiel]


Heraldo de México, Mar 28, 2023

Press

Ursachen für den Antibiotika-Mangel [feat. Peter Klimek]


ORF (ZIB 1), Mar 27, 2023

Press

Sturm statt Elfenbeinturm [feat. Hannah Metzler]


Falter, Mar 21, 2023

Press

Neue Studie: Wie es zum Antibiotika-Mangel kam [feat. Peter Klimek]


Die Presse, Mar 27, 2023

Press

Impfpflicht und politischer Einfluss: Experten ziehen Bilanz über drei Jahre Pandemie [feat. Peter Klimek]


Die Presse, Mar 19, 2023

Press

"War of Words: Scientists Reveal How to Create the Ultimate Word List for Different Languages" [feat. Anna Di Natale]


Newswav, Mar 14, 2023

Press

Frauen in der Chefetage – das vernachlässigte Potenzial [feat. Matthias Raddant]


Wiener Zeitung, Mar 8, 2023

Press

Top-Forscher Klimek widmet sich dem Lieferketten-Problem [feat.Peter Klimek]


Kurier.at, Mar 6, 2023

Publication

S. Daniotti, B. Monechi, E. Ubaldi

A maximum entropy approach for the modelling of car-sharing parking dynamics

Scientific Repots 13 (2023) 2993

Publication

R. Prieto-Curiel, J. E. Patino, B. Anderson

Scaling of the morphology of African cities

PNAS 120 (9) (2023) e2214254120

Publication

J. Chen, E. Mittendorfer-Rutz, L. Berg, M. Noriedam, M. Sijbrandij, P. Klimek

Association of common mental disorders and related multimorbidity with subsequent labor market marginalization among refugee and Swedish-born young adults

Frontiers in Public Health 11 (2023) 1054261

Publication

A. Di Natale, D. Garcia

LEXpander: applying colexification networks to automated lexicon expansion

Behaviour Research Methods (2023)

Publication

V.D.P. Servedio, M. R. Ferreira, N. Reisz, R. Costas, S. Thurner

Scale-free growth in regional scientific capacity building explains long-term scientific dominance

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 167 (2023) 113020

Publication

C. Deischinger, E. Dervic, S. Nopp, M. Kaleta, P. Klimek, A. Kautzky-Willer

Diabetes mellitus is associated with a higher relative risk for venous thromboembolism in females than in males

Diabetes Res Clin Pract. (2022) 36471550

Publication

A. Nerpel, et al.

SARS-ANI: a global open access dataset of reported SARS-CoV-2 events in animals

Scientific Data 9 (438) (2022)

Publication

M. Leutner, M. Butylina, C. Matzhold, et al.

Simvastatin therapy in higher dosages deteriorates bone quality: Consistent evidence from population-wide patient data and interventional mouse studies

Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 158 (2023) 114089

Publication

E. D. Lee, X. Chen, B. C. Daniels

Discovering sparse control strategies in neural activity

PLoS Computational Biology (May 27) (2022)

Publication

H. Kong, S. Martin-Gutierrez, F. Karimi

Influence of the first-mover advantage on the gender disparities in physics citations

Communications Physics 5 (243) (2022)

Publication

T.M. Pham, J. Korbel, R. Hanel, S. Thurner

Empirical social triad statistics can be explained with dyadic homophylic interactions

PNAS 119 (2022) e2121103119

Event

CSH Talk by Jan Korbel: "Homophily-based social group formation in a spin-glass self-assembly framework"


Mar 31, 2023 | 15:0016:00

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Event

CSH Talk by Michael Szell: "Bicycle infrastructure data and networks: Opportunities and limitations"


Apr 04, 2023 | 15:0016:00

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Event

CSH Talk by Rafael Prieto-Curiel: "Sustainable mobility in large cities"


Apr 07, 2023 | 15:0016:00

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Event

CSH Talk by Tatiana Filatova: "Cities, markets and climate change: a complexity perspective"


Apr 19, 2023 | 15:0016:00

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Event

CSH-ITU Copenhagen Workshop: "Sustainable Mobility: Data, Networks, and Complexity"


Apr 14, 2023 | 8:3013:00

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Event

CSH Workshop: "Mineral resources and food security"


Apr 26, 2023 | 10:0017:00

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Event

CSH Talk by Norbert Streitz: "Perspectives for Designing Complex Citizens-City Relationships: Participation, Cooperation, Co-Creation and Empowerment"


May 03, 2023 | 15:0016:00

Complexity Science Hub Vienna