How “Fake News” Goes Viral
Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0203958 A recent paper published by Petter Tornberg from the University of Amsterdam sheds light on how misinformation goes viral in social networks. The work ties well into a recent Cornell CAM Colloquium talk on Contagion in Networks by Microsoft Research’s Duncan Watts, […]
Cycling’s Sponsorship Crisis in Terms of Matching Markets
Pro cycling as a sport has forever struggled with funding. While many sports can rely on stadium tickets sales as well as tv viewership, it is impractical to charge people for standing by the side of the road. Especially when we are talking about 60 mile or greater expanses of road. Thus, cycling teams mainly […]
Using PageRank to Predict Chemical Reactivity
The transfer of knowledge and technology from one field to another is a particularly rewarding aspect of research. It is also an increasingly important phenomenon as scientists and researchers work towards better understanding this world and our place within it, the beauty of nature is the patterns and consistency it holds. An interesting crossroads lies […]
The Side Effects of Publicly Displaying PageRank
Source: https://searchengineland.com/rip-google-pagerank-retrospective-244286 As discussed in lecture, PageRank is a way to determine the importance of a webpage. This determines the order of appearance of webpages in a search engine when a search phrase in entered: from the most important (i.e., higher ranking) webpage to the least. This is the reason behind why when the search […]
LinkedIn Profile Connections (Blog Post 2)
Link: https://archive.tedx.amsterdam/2016/07/linkedin-profile-equal-power/ The article linked above discusses the trends of connections people have on LinkedIn, especially detailing the differences between types of connections different employees have. One of the biggest advantages of LinkedIn is that a person connected to another with a weaker tie has access to a lot of resources provided by the […]
Using PageRank to Detect Anomalies and Fraud in Healthcare
Using PageRank to Detect Anomalies and Fraud in Healthcare In the United States, it is reported that 3-10% of total health care spending is lost each year to healthcare fraud. This equates to about $70B to $260B and in Europe there is a similar problem with about $30B to $100B are lost each year. With […]
Using Auctions to Get Your Next Ride
While ride-sharing giants have seemed to set the standard for practices in determining the prices for ride fares, it’s worth looking into alternative approaches that involve auctions. The following are two examples, one currently existing and one hypothetical, of ways that ride-sharing platforms like Uber and Lyft can explore the way that riders and drivers […]
The Dark Arts of Second-Price Auctions
Source: https://adexchanger.com/ad-exchange-news/the-dark-arts-of-second-price-auctions/ https://www.emarketer.com/content/first-price-auctions-are-driving-up-ad-prices As we have discussed in the last few lectures, online programmatic platforms and search engines reel in billions of profit each year through auctioning off their advertisement slots predominantly on a second-price basis. In the most basic form of second-price auction, each bidder submits their bid anonymously to the […]
Why Cascading Information is Key to Successful Organizational Change
For this second blog post, I read Why Cascading Information is Key to Successful Organizational Change by Dwight Mihalicz. What he discusses in this article is that once people get moved into an organization, it is hard to get them to change their habits. That is why it is important that new employees get to know the company […]
How Cooperative Game Theory Enables Cryptocurrency to Function
Coordination Games & Cooperative Game Theory in Cryptocurrency Bitcoin’s success as a decentralized system for exchanging cryptocurrency can largely be attributed to game theory, and more specifically, cooperative strategies among the many different players involved in the exchanges, or the “game.” Because of the decentralized nature of Bitcoin, there is no one authority that can […]
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