Braess paradox may ‘disappear’ under high traffic demands
Sources: http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2011/05/10/1008636108.DCSupplemental/sapp.pdf Jan Lorenza,1,2, Heiko Rauhutb,1,2, Frank Schweitzera and Dirk Helbingb,c, (2010) How social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effect 10.1073/pnas.1008636108 PNAS May 31, 2011 vol. 108 no. 22 9020-9025 Nagurney. “The negation of the Braess paradox as demand increases: The wisdom of crowds in transportation networks.”Europhysics Letters, 91 (2010) 48002. As a […]
NBA Coaching Trees and a look at the 2007-08 Boston Celtics
An interesting network to look at is NBA coaching trees. An NBA team has one head coach, but that coach has several assistant coaches working under him. The nodes are head coaches or ex head coaches, and edges are formed between a head coach and his ex-assistant coaches who have become head coaches. Although the […]
Rock, Paper, Scissors and Game Theory
Below are two links, one an article that summarizes the information presented in a video by Numberphile that details the logic humans follow when playing Rock, Paper, Scissors. Rock, Paper, Scissors is normally considered a simple game due to the idea that all three outcomes should be of equal probability. However, the game becomes more […]
Pitcher vs. Batter: An Exercise in Game Theory
Major league baseball is a realm full of numbers to crunch, a mecca for statisticians like Nate Silver, whose blog FiveThirtyEight applies quantitative analysis to baseball records. (There’s even a word dedicated to the analysis of baseball statistics – sabermetrics!) In a recent FiveThirtyEight article, sports writer Neil Paine describes a metric that he calls […]
The Spread of Disease: Why Modernization and Networks at Fault and the Solution
Diseases have been spreading through the human race for over 500 years. The Black Death moved across Europe in a ripple like manner, like many other diseases. Scientists agree that the spread disease was mainly shaped by the method of traveling on foot. In an article regardingGlobal Pandemic movements, the author refers to it as […]
Game Theory and Its Applications
Game theory is effectively the study of making strategic decisions. These decisions are predicted using basic intuition and logic, as the theory is based on the fact that humans tend to act in a way that best interests themselves. Although this seems like a selfish way of thinking, it is generally true and can be […]
Masquerade – An App for Weak Ties
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1019066721?mt=8&&referrer=click%3D8c807855-76a2-45cf-8774-3e973d26f4cf If Tinder and Yik Yak had a baby, it would be Masquerade. Masquerade is a new social networking app that combines features of anonymity, proximity, and mutual selection to allow people to chat anonymously with people in their area and potentially reveal their true identities by “removing their mask” to make new connections. The […]
Severing Online Social Ties
The person we portray ourselves as online is often a conglomeration of the people with whom we surround ourselves, and on Facebook in particular this concerns the people we are ‘friends’ with. Often our opinions align with those we are close with, and we have strong positive connections with these people. It is very clear […]
The Greek Financial Crisis and the Global Economic Network
Today’s world economy can be represented by an interconnected network of countries from all seven continents. In the past, the effects of individual economic booms or crises in one country would mostly be contained within the geographic region. However, because of the nature of the ever-growing global economy phenomenon, the concept of “market contagion” has […]
Strong Ties in Social Media
http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8564795/facebook-online-opinion-filter-bubble-news-feed-study The Pariser’s bubble, the main principle behind algorithms for targeted ads, search results, and even Facebook’s News Feed, is a personalized shield in the world of social media meant to reveal more of what a user likes and less of what he or she dislikes. While this “filter bubble” is determined by complex formulas […]
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