Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Can Data Predict Political Revolutions?

Richard Florida, The Atlantic
First Tunisia, then Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria, and Morocco seemingly spontaneously combusted from the bottom up. Last weekend there were online calls for mass protests in Beijing, Shanghai, and other major Chinese cities; Libya is in a full-blown state of revolution as of this writing, with much of the country in the hands of rebels and government security forces firing on demonstrators in Tripoli.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/02/can_data_predict_political_revolutions_251355.html

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