What Makes A Post go Viral?
What makes a viral video? This New York Times article discusses the phenomenon of viral social media posts and how social sharing can create internet fame. This viral sensation relates to the idea of information cascades and the “following the crowd” that we discussed in class. This sensation occurs when people make the decision to […]
Network Diffusion of Ideas in Academia
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/11/06/how-ideas-go-viral-academia The article I chose for this blog post regarded a recent study done at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The researchers in this study looked at the way that ideas “spread” through academia, and found that there are several factors that affect how ideas move through academia, and one big factor is where these […]
Revisiting Game Theory in the study of animal behavior
In class, we covered the concepts of game theory, nash equilibrium, pure strategy and mixed strategy equilibria as they relate to economics, business, war, and even soccer. Most recently, my animal behavior class has studied evolutionarily stable strategy through the lens of game theory, and uses these concepts to understand why some species’ behaviors persist […]
Bubbles as Clusters in opposing Network Cascades
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/america-bubbles/514385/ It has become more and more obvious that we exist in bubbles. Most obviously, we exist in political bubbles which is cited as a big reason why the outcome of the most recent election was so surprising to so many people. Besides politics, American exist in bubbles in almost every aspect of their […]
A Case-Study of the Increasing Popularity of Tattoos as an Epidemic Model
Recently, a close friend of mine showed me her first tattoo. It was fairly innocent — a few dark ink lines on her inner wrist, which drew inspiration from her favorite Impressionist artist. However, what did surprise me was this friend herself; this was a girl who I had always viewed to be more conservative […]
Information Cascades Explaining The Mobile Phone Market
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/huawei-aims-to-overtake-samsung-as-no-1-smartphone-player-by-2020.html?recirc=taboolainternal Apple is a dominant technology company worldwide, and controls a firm grip of the global phone market share. The company has made its presence known in both the United States and China over the past few years with more than a majority of the populations adopting the iPhone as their phone of choice. […]
Preventing the spread of epidemics at airports
https://www.internationalairportreview.com/article/76873/hand-hygiene-tackle-disease/ According to this article, the spread of epidemics through networks of people at airports can be controlled to some degree by one of the simplest hygienic practices, washing one’s hands. As we learned in lecture, the spread of an epidemic is determined by p, the probability of the disease spreading to another person […]
FLAVORED JUUL PODS BANNED FROM STOREFRONTS
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/juul-electronic-cigarettes-vaping-fda-regulations/ In the Chicago Sun Times article “Juul Halts Sales of Flavors at Stores” journalist Mike Stobbe discusses Juul’s decision to stop selling flavored Juul pods in brick-and-mortar store retailers. Juul decided to make this decision after a legal implication from the FDA who ordered JUUL to come up with a solution for their […]
Is Anyone using Google Plus?
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-happened-to-google-plus-2015-4 This article was talking about what happened to one of Google’s social networks – Google Plus. Google Plus was a social network aimed at competing with Facebook, however, it never really caught on. Even though there are technically a lot of “accounts”, since it’s connected with the Google account, only a very small fraction […]
information cascade on infants
Do you ever feel like you are so much like your parents? There are so many negligible details like same eating preferences and even ways of behaving. There’s no doubt that your family is one of the biggest influence in your life since the second you come to this world. My aunt just gave birth […]
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