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Social physics

Social physics or sociophysics is an interdisciplinary field of science which uses mathematical tools inspired by physics to understand the behavior of human crowds. In a modern commercial use, it can also refer to the analysis of social phenomena with big data.

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Social physics

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related to history · 24
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related to Ising model and voter dynamics · 11
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Social physics → COVID-19, In, It, Social, The, These
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Social physics → relationship of the Ising model and the voting dynamics of a finite population

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