Number and Types of Connections in Ego Network Influences Health for Aging Patients
A recent paper published in Nature claims that for aging people with medical conditions, the size of your network is more important than how strong the connections are. Isolation is widely known to be a negative factor for health, but this study suggests that having a lot of acquaintances who don’t know each other is […]
The Cobra Effect and Game Theory
When the British Government was in power in India, it launched a program to decrease the population of cobras across the country – the Government provided a reward for each dead snake. As a consequence, people soon starting breeding more snakes in order to increase their earnings. When the Government realized this, it shut down […]
Mapping Los Angeles’ notorious travel problem
Link to relevant article: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/27/americas/los-angeles-traffic/index.html LA is well known for being the world’s most congested city, with its heavy amounts of traffic resulting in people spending an average of 102 hours per year in congestion during peak hours. The public transportation system is known to be rather sparse compared to that of other major cities in […]
AI Saves Lives
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612054/fei-fang-carnegie-mellon-artificial-intelligence/ The article I chose is titled “How AI could help solve some of society’s toughest problems” and is written about one particular Carnegie Mellon University assistant professor, Fei Fang, who is using her knowledge and skills of artificial intelligence to construct ways to save the lives of people. Artificial intelligence can be used to […]
What influence does the “little blue check” have? The impact of having a verified instagram account
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/instagrams-verification-rollout-impact-social-media-influencers/story?id=57660490 When many instagram users see the much wanted “little blue check” by a person’s instagram name or handle they know that this user is a verified instagram user. “A verified profile acknowledges a person’s authentic presence online along with their influence on society” (Meltzer). This blue check is granted to many well known celebrities […]
Social Networks Affecting Privacy Protection
https://engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/article/researchers-analyze-friendship-networks-infer-hidden-traits With our exploration of social networks in class, it is interesting to note that homophily is the structure that holds these networks together. What constitutes one’s circle of friends is their similarities because there is intentionality in these relationships; these people are not a random group of people that just decided to hang out […]
Social Network Centrality
https://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/05/must-know-determine-influence-twitter-user.html https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM10/paper/viewFile/1538/1826 In social networks, it is important to understand centrality of nodes within the network to understand importance and influence of nodes. Centrality is one of the most studied concepts in social network analysis. There is a huge literature regarding centrality measures, as ways to identify the most relevant users in a social network. […]
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