Constructing Networks to Represent Small Aquatic Ecosystems
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0040324 The attached article studies the effects of various changes on a small ecosystem that forms in the water that gathers in the cup shaped leaves of a plant called Sarracenia purpurea. The leaves collect rain water, and a small ecosystem soon forms in the leaf. Researchers constructed a network relating the different species […]
Triadic Closure Observed in Spotted Hyenas
The concept of triadic closure is part of the foundation of social network and graph theory, and has been studied extensively. Put simply, the triadic closure principle states that two people who don’t know each other are likely to become friends if they have a friend in common. This makes sense for a variety of […]
Family Relations and Network Structure
The Huffington Post recently came out with an article describing the trending topic of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s reunion onstage at a Radio City Music Hall concert. As background information, Lopez and Anthony were married and had two kids before divorcing and moving on to new relationships with different partners. However, the pair recently […]
Gender Homophily: It’s Influence on Social Networks
This academic article talks about gender homophily (the tendency of people to interact more with people like them- so in this case, people of the same gender) in online relationships (both dyadic and triadic). This is specifically important to the content of our class and understanding networks in general because, as stated in the article, […]
Graph Theory and Criminology
http://www.core77.com/posts/22462/Visualizing-Criminal-Networks-to-Help-Police-Solve-Crime While graph theory has immediate connections to friendships and interactions in social media, the analysis of networks can have other surprising applications, including as a tool for solving real-time crime cases. A few years ago, the Richmond City Police Department tested a social network analysis program which not only provided visual representations of networks, […]
Change.org’s big network
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/10/17/activism-for-profit-change-org-makes-an-impact-and-makes-money/#55a29d7d420f Surprisingly enough the founder of Change.org had aims to go into investment banking and not social work. During Ben Rattray’s senior year of college, his older brother came out of as gay and voiced his concern that there were not enough people willing to “stand up or speak out” on social issues, leading to […]
Game Theory and the Political Movements in Hong Kong
Hong Kong, which was once a British colony, was handed back to the Chinese control in 1997. Before the handover, the Chinese government stated its respect towards the Hong Kong citizens’ freedom and rights, and promised to implement the “one country, two systems” policy for at least 50 years. However, in recent years, it was […]
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