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Social physics

What can data tell us about cities? Sandy Pentland has the ingredients for a city’s success.

Professor Sandy Pentland is the modern pioneer of what’s called β€˜Social Physics’ - the analysis of human interactions using so called Big Data. Mining data - from credit cards, electronic ticketing and mobile phones - we can now take a reading of the city, its pulse. Sandy Pentland tells us why some cities are richer and more successful than others.

Presented by David Edmonds

(Image: Busy City scene at night, Credit: Getty Images)

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9 minutes

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Sun 5 Apr 2020 22:50GMT

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  • Sat 21 Apr 2018 19:50GMT
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  • Sun 22 Apr 2018 18:50GMT
  • Tue 24 Apr 2018 17:50GMT
  • Sat 4 Apr 2020 04:50GMT
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  • Sun 5 Apr 2020 22:50GMT