How to stop viruses with “anti-viral” viral effects
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal discussed the recent troubles of a company, Theranos, in the article, “Walgreens Scrutinizes Theranos Testing.” Although the article discusses issues related with the partnership, within the scope of networks, we will simply discussed their plans and what the implementation of these plans could do. In short, Theranos is […]
A Commentary on EdgeRank
Since we had learned about PageRank in class, I was curious to see what other kinds of ranking algorithms existed as well. After all, while PageRank is a useful metric for accomplishing the specific task of making a good search engine, it’s obviously not applicable to every kind of ranking system. Thus, I did some […]
The Epidemic of Suicides
Many epidemics are known as the transmitting of diseases related to physical health such as the flu, smallpox, and AIDS. These are all due to people being susceptible to such diseases, and the contagious attribute of such illnesses. However, there exists evidence that even mental illnesses can be contagious, and people are very susceptible to […]
Toxic Chemicals and PageRank
Researchers have developed a new way of modeling and therefore effectively containing toxic spills in water, and the method is based on an important algorithm that you probably take advantage of every day: PageRank. PageRank is the idea that one can model a network of nodes that have directed links and use the model to […]
Game Theory Perspective on China’s Recent Move to Cut Interest Rates
China recently reported its latest quarterly economic growth, and people raised concern about China’s economic outlook because it is one the lowest growth rates that China has reported since the 2008 financial crisis. In order to encourage more investment activities and spur economic growth, Chinese government announced that it will decrease its interest rates and […]
A new way to search on Facebook
Facebook has just recently altered the algorithms behind their search bar in order to incorporate a much wider range of topics, while also organizing search by time and relevance to the world now. People can now search for any sort of breaking news that may be happening with their friends or in the world around […]
Facebook to Enter Search Market
Facebook announced Friday that they would be expanding their search services, allowing users to search much more than friends and posts. Specifically, Facebook is providing users with the capability to search topics and posts across Facebook — and the internet. This move comes as an action directly competing against Google, the industry standard in search. […]
Soccer as a Network
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428399/pagerank-algorithm-reveals-soccer-teams-strategies/#comments Soccer analytics are not up to par with statistical analysis in other major sports such as baseball, basketball and American football. However, network theory provides a possible framework for modeling the most popular sport in the world. The idea is to represent players as nodes and passes as edges in a network […]
Rank National Football Teams with PageRank
Besides its well-known use in search engine, PageRank can be used in other networks as well. Lazova and Basnarkov from Cyril and Methodius University in Macedonia applied PageRank to rank national football teams, based on the World Cup tournaments since 1930. In their model, each national team is a node, and each edge represents a […]
Google PageRank For Apps
Google’s PageRank algorithm and the use of links as a “voting” system for discovering websites was a transformational moment for the web and it changed online discovery forever. Before the PageRank era, searching directories for relevant website and manually typing URLs in the browser’s address bar was very common. However, now we use Google’s PageRank […]
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