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Geoffrey West

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Name: Geoffrey West

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

EverBank Financial Corp

Equipment Acquisition Strategies

A poor economy and uncertainty around the Accountable Care Act has made it hard for hospital radiology departments and imaging facilities to buy new--often very costly--equipment. Imaging providers have been reticent to outlay as much capital as in the ... [Published Advance for Imaging & Radiation Oncology - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: EverBank Financial Corp, Geoffrey West, Michael Sweeney

First reported Jun 06 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 5 reports

Santa Fe Institute

What cities, data and Yahoo have in common: Interaction matters

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer caught a lot of flack for her mandate prohibiting working from home , but new research from MIT seems to back up her decision. The study, published in Nature , concludes that cities with higher rates of face-to-face interactions ... [Published GigaOM - Jun 06 2013]

Entities: Interaction, Santa Fe Institute, Yahoo! Inc, Density

First reported Jun 06 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 1 reports

Etsy Inc

Learning to Flow

New science of water for life, new model for business Adrian HoA fully referenced version of this article is posted on iSIS members website and is otherwise available for download herePlease circulate widely and repost, but you must give the URL of the ... [Published Institute of Sciences in Society - Jun 06 2013]

Entities: Geoffrey West, Stanley Milgram, Etsy Inc

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

'Big Data Needs a Big Theory to Go with It'

Travel day, so some quick ones before heading out: Big Data Needs a Big Theory to Go with It, by Geoffrey West : As theworld becomes increasingly complex and interconnected, some of our biggestchallenges have begun to seem intractable. What should ... [Published Economist's View - May 09 2013]

Entities: Big Data, Geoffrey West, FEEDBACK LOOP

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Deep thoughts on civilisation from Jeremy “Hari Seldon” Grantham

If you submit to theoretical physicist Geoffrey West’s urban development theories , then you’ve probably aware of the idea that humanity is set to face a critical crunch point soon enough (if not already). And by crunch point, we mean — either humanity ... [Published FT Alphaville - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Hari Seldon, Civilization, Geoffrey West

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

On cities and networks

I’m in Boston right now, and bummed that I can’t attend Start-up City: An Entrepreneurial Economy for Middle Class New York , which is happening today at New York Law School today. I learned about it via Dana Spiegel of NYC Wireless , who ... [Published Doc Searls Weblog - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Geoffrey West, Jonah Lehrer, Infrastructure, New York Law School

First reported Apr 11 2013 - Updated Apr 11 2013 - 1 reports

University of Arizona

The Buzz of Cities

For bees, bigger hives are better. Last week researchers at the University of Arizona published their findings : bees of bigger hives have more information and forage better. With improved communications, bees from the bigger hives sent new foragers ... [Published blogs.worldbank.org - Apr 11 2013]

Entities: Urticaria, Geoffrey West, Marcus Aurelius, Honeybee, University of Arizona

First reported Jan 01 2013 - Updated Jan 01 2013 - 1 reports

In Praise Of Urban Density

Gaia Vince runs through the reasons: The denser the city, the more productive, efficient and powerful it becomes. The theoretical physicists, Luis Bettencourt and Geoffrey West calculated that if the population of a city is doubled, average ... [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Jan 01 2013]

Entities: Geoffrey West, Carbon Emissions, Density

Quotes

...the community in which those images are being generated to attach a negative reputation to that facility or to that imaging department," West says. "so that is going to affect the bottom line, that's going to affect the number of patients that end up being referred to that facility because they're going to listen to their doctors when deciding where to go for a scan."

Equipment Acquisition Strategies [Published Advance for Imaging & Radiation Oncology - Jun 17 2013]

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Equipment Acquisition Strategies [Published Advance for Imaging & Radiation Oncology - Jun 17 2013]
What cities, data and Yahoo have in common: Int... [Published GigaOM - Jun 06 2013]
What cities, data and Yahoo have in common: Int... [Published GigaOM Network - Jun 06 2013]
What cities, data and Yahoo have in common: Int... [Published GigaOM Network - Jun 06 2013]
What cities, data and Yahoo have in common: Int... [Published Earth2Tech - Jun 06 2013]
What cities, data and Yahoo have in common: Int... [Published GigaOM - Jun 06 2013]
Learning to Flow [Published Institute of Sciences in Society - Jun 06 2013]
'Big Data Needs a Big Theory to Go with It' [Published Economist's View - May 09 2013]
Deep thoughts on civilisation from Jeremy “Hari... [Published FT Alphaville - Apr 29 2013]
On cities and networks [Published Doc Searls Weblog - Apr 26 2013]
Cushman & Wakefield \| Commerce Promotes Geoffre... [Published Marketwire - Breaking News Releases - Apr 15 2013]
The Buzz of Cities [Published blogs.worldbank.org - Apr 11 2013]
In Praise Of Urban Density [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Jan 01 2013]

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What cities, data and Yahoo have in common: Int... [Published GigaOM - Jun 06 2013] Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer caught a lot of flack for her mandate prohibiting working from home , but new research from MIT seems to back up her decision. The study, published in Nature , concludes that cities with higher rates of face-to-face interactions ...
What cities, data and Yahoo have in common: Int... [Published GigaOM Network - Jun 06 2013] Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer caught a lot of flack for her mandate prohibiting working from home , but new research from MIT seems to back up her decision. The study, published in Nature, concludes that cities with higher rates of face-to-face interactions ...
What cities, data and Yahoo have in common: Int... [Published GigaOM Network - Jun 06 2013] Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer caught a lot of flack for her mandate prohibiting working from home , but new research from MIT seems to back up her decision. The study, published in Nature, concludes that cities with higher rates of face-to-face interactions ...
What cities, data and Yahoo have in common: Int... [Published Earth2Tech - Jun 06 2013] Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer caught a lot of flack for her mandate prohibiting working from home , but new research from MIT seems to back up her decision. The study, published in Nature, concludes that cities with higher rates of face-to-face interactions ...
What cities, data and Yahoo have in common: Int... [Published GigaOM - Jun 06 2013] Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer caught a lot of flack for her mandate prohibiting working from home , but new research from MIT seems to back up her decision. The study, published in Nature, concludes that cities with higher rates of face-to-face interactions ...

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Cushman & Wakefield \| Commerce Promotes Geoffre... [Published Marketwire - Breaking News Releases - Apr 15 2013]