Swarm Creativity Blog

Yesterday I learned from Rod Dunne about his Science Fiction novel "Terra Swarm"  which extrapolates how swarms of scouting spacecraft could search the cosmos in search of habitable planets, forming hives as they go. COIN's form the backdrop for the concepts for a story about deep space explorers and their feelings of liberty within such a swarm. A great read...

When I was in Chile in August 2012 at the invitation of good friend Cristobal Garcia , " Do Future Andes 2012  " a great movie about the future of Swarmcreativity and COINs in Chile was produced . Besides the discussion of the benefits of creative swarms I also find the Chilean nature stunningly beautiful.

As everybody knows, today the  next President of the United States gets elected. Common wisdom says that it's the swing states such as Florida and Ohio that will decide the outcome of the race. Rohan Kulkarni , who has already done a really nice job analyzing the outcome of the Vice Presidential debate between Ryan and Biden, has looked more closely at what voters in Ohio and Florida have to say about Obama and Romney. Here is his blog post .

I would like to start by thanking Peter for inviting me to write this post on the Swarm Creativity blog. I have been in Peter’s COINs class for over a month now and I am thoroughly fascinated by what social network analysis can teach us. For the COINs class’ midterm exam that involves gathering, analyzing and inferring from social media data, I was assigned the topic “Joe Biden against Paul Ryan” . It was a great topic for me since I was planning on doing some coolhunting on this topic after the Vice Presidential debate that evening. Conducting the analysis before the debate made the results even more interesting. I have used Condor’s Twitter Collector to collect Twitter feeds and Condor Web Collector’s Google Blog Search to collect website data. Here are the results, pre and post-debate. Pre-Debate Analysis Twitter   Following image shows the network of users talking about Paul Ryan and Joe Biden on Twitter. The blue dots are users talking about Joe Biden, the gre...