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24 alternatives to Some Noise - When the Tides Change [Part II of II]

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Some Noise - When the Tides Change [Part II of II] launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Reply All - 65: On the Inside, Part II▲60
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Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell▲65
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OP here: I created this visualization tool as the byproduct of a supply chain class I taught at Columbia. The pedagogical exercise grew into a full blown visualization and paper about global oil trade. The model: The mechanics are the same as the financial network Eisenberg-Noe: Instead of banks, every country consumes oil interconnected via bilateral trading. Shocks propagate throughout the network, depleting oil reserves when bottleneck nodes (such as the Strait of Hormuz) are blocked. Insights: The interesting part is the mechanics of how the crisis unfolds: for example, France receives 0…
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia▲63
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2016 · its alternatives →
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Predictably Irrational▲96
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Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle ▲61
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Taxi Wars – Stories from the front line▲58
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Against the Gods▲62
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2016 · its alternatives →
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1984▲95
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2015 · its alternatives →
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Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell▲61
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2016 · its alternatives →
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My Favorite Murder: Squad Gourds▲52
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Fooled By Randomness ▲105
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2015 · its alternatives →
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99% Invisible - A Sea Worth its Salt▲68
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Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell: Ep. 8 Blame Game▲63
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