Durring times of crisis, shocks to supply chains can propagate through the entire economy (e.g., global shortages of critical goods, such as...

In the past we have written how one can use social media or newspapers to study the world around us. Keeping with this theme of using text...

In the past we have written about how one can use social media to monitor dust storms along with how multi-modal large language models (ML...

In the past we have written a number of posts on synthetic populations , however, one thing we have not done is compare the various techniqu...

In the past we have posted about how we can utilize data and models to explore pandemics and peoples reactions to them. And while interest ...