New Roads doesn’t mean less traffic
One of the two lanes of the Turcot interchange was closed to prepare for the new two lane road called Route 136 which is parallel to the Ville Marie Expressway. However, in order to build this new road, four of the lanes on the Ville Marie will be closed during the process of construction. During […]
Analysis of /pol/ and How Posting Habits Relate to Page Rank and the System of Hubs and Authorities
In a recently released academic paper (which can be found here) titled “A Longitudinal Measurement Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web,” researchers analyze data collected from over 8 million posts on 4chan’s /pol/ discussion board. For those that are not aware, 4chan is a popular anonymous imageboard website that hosts boards […]
Human Bias Threatening Integrity of Modern Day News Sources
The integrity of social media “trending” sections and priority page ranking algorithms are being called into question. There was a report claiming that Facebook used people to manipulate user’s trending news feed page to promote the #BlackLivesMatter campaign, with more reports with allegations of a similar nature. This proves that there are humans controlling the […]
A New Way of Searching: Retrieving the Unexpected
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-alternative-search-engines.html With the emergence of the world wide web, the transfer of information has moved away from the linear style information storage, such as computer memory, libraries, etc. These are all examples of information being collected in some sequential order. Now, with the power of search engines, information mimics our conscious experience of thinking, […]
Weapons of Math Destruction – An Ethical Critique on “Big Data” in Networks
The rise of the big data revolution has left many statistical scientists the task of grappling with vast amounts of data of which they must develop algorithms to analyze and make predictions. It’s no surprise then that many companies have started to hire data and computer scientists to formulate these algorithms across a myriad of […]
Hip-hop, Trump, and Changes in Network Behavior
Source: http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/clinton-trump-hip-hop-lyrics/ Wealth and power have always been the ultimate symbols of success in hip-hop, so it makes sense that Donald Trump, the embodiment of American wealth, would be referenced often by rappers. Until 2015, when Trump announced his candidacy for the American presidency, the network of hip-hop artists generally agreed that Trump was […]
Google Posts and Search Marketers
What Google’s experimental content podium means for SEO In this article titled, “What Google’s experimental content podium means for SEO” the author discusses the implications of “google posts” for search marketers. Google posts is a google feature that launched in January that allows people and businesses to create content directly on Google, which in turn appears highly […]
Social Media and Online Reviews Fraud: A Thing of the Past?
Link to resources: https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/09/14/carnegie-mellon-algorithm-uncovers-online-social-site-fraudsters.aspx ; https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/bhooi/papers/fraudar_kdd16.pdf Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have created a system called Fraudar that detects fraudulent accounts on the internet. Researcher Christos Faloutsos was interested in developing a fraud detecting system because there are large amounts of fraud that “influence our decisions over an extremely wide spectrum of daily and professional activities,” including restaurants, […]
Paul Pogba completes record transfer to Manchester United from Juventus Ad (0:11) Loaded: 0%Progress: 0%
http://www.espnfc.us/story/2915734/paul-pogba-completes-record-move-to-manchester-united-from-juventus The link is the news article few months earlier reporting Paul Pogba’s historical transfer from Juventus to Manchester United. Paul Pogba has emerged to be the best midfield in the work in the recent years, and lots of football clubs were looking to buy him. At the end, Manchester United was able to […]
Facebook’s ‘Trending’ Algorithm
http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-trending-feature-exhibits-flaws-under-new-algorithm-1473176652 In class, we have been discussing the ways that Google and other browers choose the order and importance of webpages. One of the primary factors in their rankings is the quality of the links going into and out of the pages. Browsers are not the only sites who need to use such a ranking algorithm. […]
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