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Hannah Fry on the power and perils of big data

The Life Scientific

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The Behavior Formula, Wancas and Humans

In many ways, they absolutely are completely different. But the thing is that there are some techniques that you can pot from one area into another. So in particular, if you had like, a drone flying over, i don't know, like wembley stadium, as people were funnelling in and funnelling out, the way th at those crowds of people move actually has lots of similarities to the way that a fluid might flow. It doesn't mean that you can say, ok, this person, jim, is going to pass through the gate at this exact second. You can't make those kind of predictions, but you can say quite general things about the volume of the about

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