Connecting People Across a Network with Tinder
The popular matchmaking app tinder has announced that it will be adding new “premium” features including an undo button and a passport option. The passport option allows users to match with people from an area outside of their 120 mile radius. This new option adds new functionality to tinder to make it possibly one of […]
the Matthew effect in science
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/234750.pdf?&acceptTC=true&jpdConfirm=true Merton investigates the reward and communication system in science, which follows the same logic of the phenomenon of Information cascade. Despite of the general conception people have of science, the intellectual domain that is established upon rationality and reasoning, scientists do not escape from information cascade. Though their intellectual goals are strictly for the […]
Creating Social Products
The article I chose to write about talks about the shift in the approach social products take to become popular. In other words, they are talking about how to create a network that is popular and unique for the user so they continue to use their product. One example of the traditional way to build […]
Apple Cascade
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/laptop-computers/all-laptops/ If you’ve ever tried to shop for a new laptop online at BestBuy’s site, you may notice that most of the Apple laptops have an absurd amount of reviews (usually in the thousands), and very positive reviews at that. PC laptops, on the other hand, typically only have a handful of modest reviews. Given […]
Beneficial and Detrimental Effects of Group Decision Making
In the BBC article, “’The Wisdom of the Crowd’: The Myths and Realities,” writer Philip Ball discusses both the accuracy and inaccuracy of the judgment of the crowd when it comes to making decisions. Ball investigates evidence from many sources including James Surowiecki’s book, The Wisdom of Crowds, in which the author justifies that the […]
Donation Cascades in Facebook
Recently, Facebook added a box at the top of users’ newsfeed homepage to encourage them to donate to Ebola relief efforts. It’ll stay up on the site for about a week (or until the user dismisses the box), and includes buttons to ‘Learn More’ or ‘Donate Now’, the latter of which allows a user to […]
The Second Round of Auctions
As we are well aware, websites such as Google and Facebook maximize profits when selling their advertising space by creating auctions for their potential buyers. But, as this Businessweek article by Doni Bloomfield reveals to us, these ad spaces are not going directly to people looking to post ads for their businesses. In fact, many […]
Crowd-Sourced Decision Making: A Honeybee’s Perspective
Among the professors here at Cornell, one biologist, Thomas Seeley, is world-renowned in his knowledge on the subject of honeybees. One particular event in the lives of bees that Professor Seeley has studied is the act of swarming. Swarming occurs in a hive when a new queen is introduced into the colony. The bees will […]
Mass Movements: Information Cascades
The idea of information cascades is deeply rooted in the evolution of stock prices. Stock price trends of Netflix essentially reflects the power as well as the fragility of information cascades as people trade stocks. Netflix for a long time had increasing stock prices. There was no room for anyone who tried to short Neflix. […]
Prediction of disease-related genes based on weighted tissue-specific networks by using DNA methylation
In class, we studied the effect of applying PageRank algorithms to rank the influence of a website. However, there are applications of PageRank outside of website ratings. Last month, a paper was published that predicted disease-related genes based on weighted tissue-specific networks by using DNA methylation. The method to do so begins by creating a […]
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