A promising way to disentangle time from space kicks off
Review Prepared by: Moinak Bhaduri Mathematical Sciences, Bentley University, Massachusetts Fine! I admit it! The title’s a bit click-baity. “Time” here need not be some immense galactic time. “Space” refers here not to the endless physical or literal space around you, but more to the types of certain events. But once you realize why the untangling was vital, how it is achieved in games such as soccer, and what forecasting benefits it can lead to, you’ll forgive me. You see, for far too long, whenever scientists had to model (meaning describe and potentially, forecast) phenomena that had both a time and a value component, such as the timing of earthquakes and magnitude of those shocks, or times of gang violence and casualties because of those attacks, their default go-to were typical spatio-temporal processes such as the marked Hawkes (described below). While with that reliance no fault may be found in…