Pop over to Drew Conway’s blog Zero Intelligence Agents and check out his latest post “Who are the most central members of the China’s leadership as we enter 2012?” Drew is a PhD student in political science at New York University. Drew studies terrorism and armed conflict; using tools from mathematics and computer science to gain a deeper understanding of these phenomena. He analyzed a massive amount of Recorded Future data gathered from open source, did some math magic and came up with a pretty compelling analysis.