Riot gear and crowd psychology
In this article found on co.design, the author discussed how polices’ riot gears actually increases the likelihood for a protesting crowd to be more violent and how police forces in Britain has adopted to this idea. The article started with the protest happened in Ferguson last year and how the armed local polices and armor […]
Is Facebook Invincible?
A huge part of Facebook’s value is tied to its huge user base. Because of this, no one believes that Facebook can possibly lose to a competitor. And perhaps that is true for a head to head competitor such as Myspace. But lateral competition could have a huge effect on Facebook’s user base. A great […]
Betting on horses in relation to the stock market
In class, we considered betting on horse races given some information on your current beliefs about the race and the wealth of each person. This article generalizes the concept to having a “wager” with which to bet. In betting, the goal is to maximize expectation on utility of wealth. To determine the odds of a […]
Small Business Clusters
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/11/prweb13081262.htm Communication between employers and employees is the surest way to make businesses run smoothly, which is especially important for small and medium sized businesses. A recent research by GetApp found surprising information about the forms of corporate communication most used by employees. While company-wide emails were, as expected, the most used method of communication […]
“Slacktivism”
This blog post is based off of an article that focuses on studying the effects of changing ones Facebook profile picture after significant events around the world. Most recently, we have seen the influx of red, white, and blue profile pictures to support the people of Paris after the horrendous terrorist attacks upon them. While […]
Advancement in Network Analysis?
Professor Babai of the University of Chicago recently made an alleged breakthrough in theoretical computer science which concerns the problem of graph isomorphism. In lecture, we have often been told that there are massive networks in biology and social media, to only name two areas, that can not be effectively visualized because of the sheer […]
The LinkedIn Effect
Our strong ties, those in our inner circle, include our family, close friends, and perhaps long-time coworkers. Our weak ties include acquaintances who we do not actively stay in contact with, but would likely share a cup of coffee with if we ran into them unexpectedly. Studies have found that weak ties are almost always […]
Why Instagram has Surpassed Facebook Among Teens
My fourteen year old sister doesn’t understand the point of Facebook. When home over break, as I stressed over whether I should update my Facebook profile picture, she laughed at me. “Silly old person,” she scoffed (I kid you not), “no one uses Facebook anymore.” While it is not necessarily true that no one at […]
Twitter Growth Stagnation
Though Twitter is currently one of the most popular social networking sites in the world, it is facing a major problem due to its “flawed design” and comparative lack of universal appeal. According to the article, while Twitter has amassed a large number of followers since its launch in July of 2006, its growth rates […]
Information Cascade in the Ethical Arena
These days, it seems as if all of our actions and decisions revolve around the principle of information cascades or direct benefit: we begin to rely on solely the decisions of others to form our own. This theory is very popular in many different sectors: busy restaurants are subject to more interest than empty ones, […]
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