Finding the most influential movies using PageRank and other network analysis algorithms
Researchers at the University of Turin used network analysis algorithms to determine the most influential movies. Instead of looking at box office numbers (which aren’t very good at determining how influential that movie can be in the future), the researchers looked at references within movies as a measure of success and they used those findings […]
Baseball 3-0 Counts
https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2015/5/6/8547151/the-game-theory-of-3-0-pitches In baseball, the count is the ratio of balls to strikes against the batter. Depending on what this ratio is, can effect many different aspects of the game. When the count is 0-2, for example, the batter must be very cautious and less selective in what they will swing at because one more strike […]
Google suggests that combining pages could make your site rank better
In this article, John Mueller, Senior Websmaster Trends Analyst at Google, suggests that you should combine weaker, smaller web pages into a single page in order to increase the rank of your site in google’s algorithm. His explanation for this is that if you have one page with more information as opposed to that information […]