Machine Learning and SEO
http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/18/machine-learning-enters-the-seo-world/ Everyone knows Google’s Search Engine Optimization algorithm dominates online marketing. We learned in class the core concepts of SEO. The webpages are ranked based on how many incoming links the website has and the quality of those links. Google, however, often changes their algorithm in hopes to improve the quality and profitability of […]
Game Theory in Professional American Football
There are a myriad of offensive philosophies in American Football including the Option, the Spread, and the West Coast style offense. These philosophies use a range of unbalanced strategies from pass-heavy to run-heavy and are common at all amateur levels of the game due to high deviations in talent among different positions; however, when it […]
The dependence of three-point shooters
The game of basketball in the National Basketball Association is continuously evolving, and the most current trend has seen the NBA turning into a three-point shooter’s league. Teams are shooting record numbers of three-point shots, and the best teams are, for the most part, in the top half of the league in three-pointers. In this article, Kirk Goldsberry […]
Online Auctions: Strategies, Reputations, and Trickery
Though auctions may require lots of preparation when done in-person, they are incredibly easy to perform over the web. On online platforms such as eBay (the most popular of them all), auctions are easy to set up and run. Even though these auctions are designed to resemble second-price sealed-bid auctions, do these online auctions play […]
The Networks of Venmo
If you ask a teenager to name an online social network chances are one of the most popular responses will be Facebook, or maybe LinkedIn (if you are asking the college teenagers who are eagerly trying to replace their middle school online presence with something more professional). Both of these online networks are in the […]
An eBay Auction and Political Banter
Sources: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/politics/rand-paul-hillary-clinton-book-auction-ebay/ and http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=231713581239&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565 In a tongue-in-cheek way to describe her accomplishments as Secretary of State to her Republican opponents, Hilary Clinton sent them a signed copy of her new autobiography. Rand Paul then proceeded to auction off that book on eBay, promoting it through his online store with the phrase “GET YOUR OWN SIGNED […]
Game theory and its applications to Digital Currency Mining
The past decade has brought with it new innovations in the digital world, and one of these innovations is digital currencies, like Bitcoin, Etherium, Litecoin, and many others. The concept of mining is essential to these large digital currencies, and Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton, believes that Game Theory concepts […]
“Linknotize” the Game of Network Navigation
Linknotize is a new game that came out earlier this year that focuses on your ability to navigate the Web. It challenges you to connect one unrelated topic to another as quickly, and in as few links as possible through websites, like Wikipedia, filled with hyperlinks. A player would start off on the page of […]
Network experiment in coordination games
Paper Cited: Bavelas, A. (1950). Communication patterns in task-oriented groups. Journal of the acoustical society of America. Link: http://scitation.aip.org/docserver/fulltext/asa/journal/jasa/22/6/1.1906679.pdf?expires=1445203617&id=id&accname=2098200&checksum=78C47231BE7D0E666B8364B16DD9EBFF Network experiments emerged as early as in the 1950s, when some MIT psychologists started to explore how network structure affects groups’ efficiency in problem solving. Bavelas provided a seminal design of such experiments. In his design, […]
A Look at Google’s 200 Search Ranking Factors
Web search is akin to looking for a book in the library, albeit on a much larger scale. There are about 100 billion web pages with new pages being created by the minute. On top of this, there are about 100 billion web queries a day. As such, search engines need to be able to […]
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