Find The Right Kidney Donors Using Matching Market
The economist, Alvin Roth, who won a Nobel Prize in 2012 for his excellent work on matching markets wrote a new book called Who Gets What—and Why? In this book, he introduces very interesting application of matching markets such as assignment of medical residencies and finding kidney donors. Before this idea emerged, most kidney transplant […]
Using PageRank to Detect Fraud in Healthcare
Link: http://hortonworks.com/blog/using-pagerank-detect-anomalies-fraud-healthcare/ PageRank is most widely known for showing being an integral component to the success of Google’s search engine. However, PageRank is also widely used in other fields with varying use cases. PageRank is not limited to web pages; instead, in the general case, PageRank is used to find “important” or “relevant” nodes in a […]
The necessity of ticket scalpers
As a big fan of Chance the Rapper, I was among the many who cheered him on last month when he announced that he had bought back the tickets for his concert, Magnificent Coloring Day, from scalpers. He paid over three times their original value just so he could sell them again at the price […]
Ranking in Online Travel Agencies
In class, we learned about how websites such as Google and Facebook price their advertisement slots with auctions to determine where the advertisement is located. Interestingly, different from that, online travel agencies are using a different method for the rankings of its search results. This practice is euphemistically called “dimming.” When an online travel agency […]
PageRank in Search Engine Optimization
searchengineland.com/crawl-budget-url-scheduling-might-impact-rankings-website-migrations-255624 While many people have heard of CEOs, few have heard of SEO. With the only the difference of a letter, the context becomes entirely different. CEOs are chief executive officers, while SEO refers to search engine optimization. In this article, the author discusses how website migrations cause the ranking of the website (in search […]
The lasting effect of Google’s publicly viewable PageRank score
http://searchengineland.com/rip-google-pagerank-retrospective-244286 Earlier this year Google announced that it would be removing its last vestige of publicly visible PageRank score after years of providing this feature. PageRank – “the secret sauce that Google used to become the giant of the search world” – provided a numeric rating of how important it considered a particular page to […]
Improving PageRank on Tumblr
Pc’s Place wrote a blogpost on the mechanics of PageRank in relation to Tumblr. The blog discusses the procedure for determining a rank, where web searches assign a rank by evenly distributing the initial value to all pages it links to. If the page has a high rank it is placed higher in the list […]
PageRank and Saving the Environment
https://www.wired.com/2009/09/googlefoodwebs/ This article describes an interesting application of the PageRank algorithm we have been using. The author describes how scientists began looking at a food web in an ecosystem as a strongly connected component of a network, and applying the algorithm to figure out the most crucial parts of the structure. While we discussed that […]
The Importance of Market-Clearing Price in the Petrol/Oil Industry
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/10/16/indias-petrol-price-rises-are-not-chronic-capitalism-but-free-markets-in-action/#3a5a2af23721 Living in a world where the majority of the modes of transport rely on oil, we are constantly worrying about the stability of the petrol markets. The economic foundation, regardless of the economic system, of several countries such as Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and India stems from oil production and prices. However, these prices not […]
Blog Post 2 – Google Removing PageRank From Google Toolbar
Perhaps the largest web-search engine company in the world has made a major announcement regarding their browsing toolbar only a few months ago. Google, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has announced that their longstanding toolbar feature PageRank will no longer be visible to the public. As shown by the first image, the Google Toolbar which […]
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