Next Big Thing After Page Rank
As we learned from the lecture, Google paved a way for the new era of trusted search results, thanks to its sophisticated PageRank algorithm. It works by giving each webpage a value based on how many other websites link to it, based on the authorities of those other websites. As google succeeded in numerically analyzing […]
Graph Theory: Systematic Biology
Graph theory is a subcategory of Networks, which deals with mapping out the connections formed by a set group. This visual representation, or model, can help researchers better understand the situation they are investigating. The links that are formed among the subjects can represent a variety of connections. In class, we went over graphs that […]
Marketing a Business
A company significantly benefits from traffic on their website. Instead of waiting until a product is finished, it is better to start marketing it early. Marc Gardener’s reasoning was that, “you’ll spend too much time and money on your product without building anticipation, generating demand, and getting early customer feedback.” He also advised that when […]
Google Bombing
In our homework, we were asked how, if we added three web pages, it would affect the authority and hub votes. An interesting phenomenon that appeared is the exponential change that happened when the numbers were added to each other. With the simple addition of a couple of ties changed the votes completely. Although this […]
Does Google’s Ad Network Discriminate Against Women?
A paper published by the researchers at Carniege Mellon University and International Computer Science Institute studies the ads served up on third party websites using Google’s ad network. The strudy found that “when users identified themselves as males, the ad network was more likely to display an advertisement on the site for a career-coaching agency […]
Braess’ Paradox Revised
Braess first proposed his paradox 40 years ago and ever since, it has affected the planning behind transportation networks and other networks ranging from electricity to the Internet. His paradox stated that sometimes, adding resources to a transportation network would actually hurt performance at equilibrium. This was supported by examples like how transportation into and […]
Other Factors Affecting Page Rank
In class we’ve talked about Page Rank exclusively in terms of link structure within a network of web pages. However, in reality Google is using a far more sophisticated set of algorithms than just this. Actually, according to this site Google probably uses over 200 different factors to determine how pages are listed (however, in reality, […]
Dominant Strategy in Medical School MATCH
For the last 30 years, AAFP has been analyzing data from the National Resident Matching Program — a program introduced to bring a semblance of order to the previously chaotic system of matching medical school graduates with appropriate residency programs. Solving this problem was done in a very market-like fashion. First, the Medical graduates are asked to […]
Applicability of PageRank to other industries
PageRank’s idea has revolutionized the way that the web is viewed and in a sense, given it structure. PageRank essentially is able to tell you, based on the number of links to other pages and references, the importance or relevance of one specific page or website, where the ones that are valued more highly are […]
PubMed and Google Scholar: The Search For the Right Papers
Any researcher in the biomedical field can tell you that finding the right papers that discuss what you are interested in can become difficult. There are two overlying reasons for this. One, the searches we want are to broad. For example, if I want to know the affects of several inflammatory cytokines on the differentiation […]
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