Ebola Connecting People
Ebola has been at hot topic of conversation over the past year or two, mainly because of a few cases that hit the United States. According to the Wikipedia page cited below, there haven’t even been over 10 cases of ebola in the whole of the United States whereas in West Africa there have been […]
LinkedIn’s Redesign Could Lead to More Potential Connections
With social media becoming more and more apparent in our everyday life, the companies that own these social media technologies are finding new ways to connect people to one another. More specifically, these companies, are trying to connect a larger number of edges and nodes to one another. This task may seem easy at first […]
Being One Step Ahead
Source: Are You Smarter Than Other New York Times Readers? by David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy A few weeks ago, the New York Times gave its readers an interactive puzzle with an answer that depends on everyone else’s answers. The goal is to predict everyone else’s answer, while they’re all trying to do the exact same thing. […]
The Two-Person Game that Lost Super Bowl XLIX
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/upshot/game-theory-says-pete-carrolls-call-at-goal-line-is-defensible.html?_r=0 Super Bowl XLIX was the most watched program in American television history, with over 120 million viewers tuning in for the game’s dramatic and controversial ending1. The Seahawks were down 4 points with 26 seconds left. However, it was only second down, and the Seahawks had the ball on the one-yard line with […]
The Biomass Network
Source: http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2015/06/14/an-amazon-com-for-bioenergy-supply-chain-logistics/ Sustainability is playing a major role in shaping the global economy. Companies of all origin are trying to tackle the challenges of tomorrow with solutions that are both beneficial to the environment and bottom line. The bio-economy is a growing sector on the US economy and can be characterized by companies that are taking […]
The MTA- the Most Extensive Transportation Network in the U.S.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), located in New York City, is one of the country’s largest transportation networks. It spans across 5000 square miles, connecting points throughout the five boroughs of New York City and Long Island. The MTA includes both the train and bus networks, which serve billions of people annually. The bus system […]
Targeted Advertising via Social Network Analysis
Football is known for its fantastic advertising campaign. Many great commercials are first aired during the Super Bowl. Now that media coverage via the web is becoming more popular, advertising agencies are looking for better methods to target football fans. This article discusses how agencies want to focus on advertising for specific fans based on […]
Spotify Recommendations
ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics from Erik Bernhardsson Social networks like Facebook deal with an astronomical number of users and the problem of giving friend recommendations based on their local network. A slightly more conceptually challenging problem is that of Spotify and their music recommendation services. Dead-set on making the way we listen to music […]
The Stability of Four Political Parties in the U.S.
As presidential candidates rev their engines for their campaigns for the coming 2016 election, fault lines in political parties become more apparent. Last December, Philip Bump of the Washington Post published his speculations of the fate of the Democratic and Republican parties in an article entitled “What would happen if Congress split into four parties? […]
Social Networks and the 2016 Presidential Campaign
Unlike past presidential campaigns, network building through social media is playing an important role in the 2016 race. Candidates are now using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, among others to get their word out and broaden their network. But why the change in campaigning strategy from past years? It is because these politicians have realized the shift […]
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