Modeling cancer metastasis
Cancer is one of the most problematic and fear-inducing diseases in our world today. The main thing that makes cancer so deadly is its ability to metastasize, or spread from its original location in the body to other places. Cancer that metastasizes greatly decreases the patient’s chance of survival. Cancer is spread through three main […]
You can’t only blame the banks
Many are familiar with the housing crisis of 2008, but very few understand who the culprit was behind the malinvestment. In a truly free market, market distortions of this kind are nearly impossible and are corrected rather quickly. In 2008, to say the government didn’t play a role in causing the crisis would be ignorant. […]
How An Ad Gets Placed In Your Facebook News Feed
Implementing advertisements is an important revenue source for many technology companies including Facebook. In fact, Facebook is known to have generated $2.68 billion on advertising revenue last quarter. Each day, there are between 11 and 12 million active ads on Facebook, from roughly 1.5 million advertisers running campaigns. Part of the reason for these active […]
Networks for Social Networks
Aticle : Search Tool on Facebook Puts Network to Work This article explains the new features in Facebook’s Graph Search, a new way for users to search about things by navigating a graph produced by Facebook. In this graph, things such as books, people, restaurants, locations, etc are nodes connected by edges (likes, friendships, comments, sign-ins, […]
The Strategy Behind Penny Auctions
Today, almost everything is bought online and consumers are looking for cheaper and faster ways to get the products that they desire. One way some achieve this is by going on online auction websites such as eBay or Beezid. These websites offer discounts on many brand name items, but the consumer must bid on the […]
Christie’s + Sotheby’s Art Auctions
The article I chose to analyze is titled “Sotheby’s and Christie’s Race to Find New Art Collectors.” This piece was written by Kelly Crow, a journalist for the Wall Street Journal, a respected source for world and financial news both in the United States in abroad. The article Describes how the top art dealers (Sotheby’s […]
Game Theory — dilemma in enviromental problem
The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 7 and 18 December. The purpose of the conference is straightly towards one crucial problem nowadays — over-emissions of carbon dioxide. What causes the over-emission of carbon dioxide and other enviromental polluted […]
Mojang Acquired By Microsoft
Article Microsoft has, in the end, decided to acquire Mojang and add the game studio to its repertoire of game companies. This would normally not be very big news, but in this case, the astounding price at which Microsoft buys this company – $2.5 billion – seems unbelievable. Historically, Microsoft has not disclosed the price […]
How do People Become Connected?
http://community.lithium.com/t5/Science-of-Social-blog/How-Do-People-Become-Connected-Community-vs-Social-Networks-2/ba-p/6620 For one thing, everyone on this planet is connected by the same social network. There is not a divide somewhere that seperates one group of people from another. This means that everyone on this planet knows everyone else through some n number of connections, but no one is left out. In fact, research has […]
The Books That We Love
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/09/the-100-books-that-facebook-users-love/379797/ The above link is an article about a viral Facebook meme that went around recently. The meme involved users posting their top ten books that had “stuck” with them in some form or another. Often, friends were tagged afterwards to then participate in filling out their own list. Facebook Data Science group took the […]
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