The Power of Social Networks in the Work Place
Through our class discussion of Triadic Closure we have discussed how social media sites utilize strong tie theories to suggest new friends for users. In that if two people have a friendship with the same person, there is an increased likelihood that they themselves would be friends. Apply the […]
Graph Theory Applied to Disease Transmission
Graph Theory Applied to Disease Transmission Links to Relevant Articles: Hepatitis C Spread by Doctor- http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/11/76 Common Cold Mapping- http://vp5qw4uf5x.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/summon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Common+cold+outbreaks%3A+A+network+theory+approach&rft.jtitle=Communications+in+Nonlinear+Science+and+Numerical+Simulation&rft.au=Vishkaie%2C+Faranak+Rajabi&rft.au=Bakouie%2C+Fatemeh&rft.au=Gharibzadeh%2C+Shahriar&rft.date=2014-11-01&rft.issn=1007-5704&rft.volume=19&rft.issue=11&rft.spage=3994&rft.epage=4002&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016%2Fj.cnsns.2013.12.011&rft.externalDBID=n%2Fa&rft.externalDocID=10_1016_j_cnsns_2013_12_011¶mdict=en-US One of the most important steps in fighting an outbreak of disease is finding the source of the pathogen and how it is spread through the population. The source is important because it can lead […]
Network Theory and Drug Repurposing
Source: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0084912 In the world of medicine, drug repurposing is becoming more and more important because it allows us to see if it is safe for a drug with known effects to certain diseases to be tested on a different disease. Not only that, but it takes a lot of money and time to construct […]
Net Neutrality and Connected Graphs
What is the internet, in particular, the world wide web, and how should it be regulated–if at all? One topic that has been getting much attention lately is net neutrality. In particular, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commision, Tom Wheeler brings up a plan in which online media companies such as Netflix, YouTube, and […]
Who’s Better at Game Theory: Humans or Chimps?
Article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chimps-outplay-humans-in-brain-games1/ Study: http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140605/srep05182/full/srep05182.html#f1 Scientists have often used chimpanzees to perform studies on economics and human behavior due to the fact that human and chimp DNA overlaps by 99%. What is shocking, however, is when the chimpanzee subjects outperform their human counterparts. That is exactly what happened in one recent study, in which chimpanzees demonstrated superior strategy […]
Net Neutrality and Social Media: A Fight For Awareness
Internet Activism is a new phenomenon which utilizes the vast network created by the World Wide Web to raise awareness of issues around the world, all at the speed of a router connection. This technique of fundraising has been shown to be tremendously effective. Just this summer, millions of dollars was raised by the viral […]
Connecting Graph Theory and Big Data
Using graph theory, many networks can be described simply by nodes and edges connecting those nodes. Graph theory facilitates much of network analysis, including such algorithm development as the Greedy Algorithm or PageRank Algorithm. Graph theory, an often abstract math usually associated with combinatorics, can also be applied practically to concisely and visually represent a […]
The Pirate Game in The Dark Knight
For those who still have not seen The Dark Knight yet, go do that now. Otherwise lets get started: The film opens up with a literal bang, when two men in a clown masks break through a window to zip-line across onto the building across the street. Their target? The controller for the silent alarm of the […]
Your Family Network- More Complicated Than You Thought
Many of us think of our ancestry as a cone extending back in time with each generation (looking backwards) having twice as many members as the prior. We each have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, 16 great great-grandparents, and so on. This logic makes perfect sense for several generations, but the number of direct […]
Newcomb’s Paradox: What’s in the box?
Game theory, which we’ve been recently discussing in class, has many interesting paradoxes, both resolved and unresolved. Previous blog posts have already touched on Braess’ paradox, which deals with large numbers of players all making decisions together. Newcomb’s paradox is the opposite, instead of dealing with hundreds of commuters, we are only concerned about the […]
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