P-O-K-E-M-O-N PARTY!!!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amymorin/2016/07/18/the-psychology-behind-the-pokemon-go-obsession/#48a13e0b4375 Pokemon Go was an enormous success. Becoming one of the most downloaded games of all time, it has reached so many different types of people across all ages. However, how could this game that had really only been wanted by fans, get so many different people who may have never even heard of Pokemon […]
How Luther Went Viral
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2011/12/17/how-luther-went-viral In our class, a significant number of network systems we have examined so far stem from online social media platform. This might create the false impression among students that social network is a rather modern structure closely associated with technological advancement. In the words of Harvard University historian Robert Darnton, “the marvels of communication […]
Epidemics Faced by the Aztecs
https://www.nature.com/news/collapse-of-aztec-society-linked-to-catastrophic-salmonella-outbreak-1.21485 When one thinks of an epidemic, the Black Plague from the 1300’s is the first thing that often pops into the mind. Yet, the emergences of Swine Flu and Ebola in past 10 years have made them seem way more realistic in the modern era. The development of penicillin and other modern medicines have […]
Diffusion and Influencers
This blog post will be a bit more qualitative rather than quantitative to illustrate the relationship between influencers, companies, and us as consumers, in addition to our effect as ‘inlfluencers’ through a model based on diffusion in the new age of internet based advertising. Traditionally, most web based advertising could be thought of as a […]
How did Skype die, then come back?
Skype was one of the first few apps to allow communication through the Internet in the mid-2000s. There was point where Skype was considered one of the main forms of communication for everyone, from personal to work. However, as time goes on, we see that Skype’s usage has been decreasing, especially with the increase of […]
Hitler’s rise to power through the lens of network effects and information cascades
https://www.livescience.com/54441-how-hitler-rose-to-power.html In the Live Science article, “Hitler’s Rise: How a Homeless Artist Became a Murderous Tyrant”, Stephanie Pappas chronicles Hitler’s rise to power. She highlights the irony that a man cited as an “empty vessel outside his political life” who failed to get into art school, who had “few genuine friends, an overinflated view of […]
Tesla’s Powerful Network
Tesla, the innovative lithium-ion battery and electric vehicle producer, aims to double the number of “Supercharger” car charging stations available in their network by the end of 2019. Tesla’s vehicles are well-known for their incredible performance in many automobile tests such as acceleration and safety, but one consistent problem electric vehicles face is limited range. […]
Startups in the rich-gets-richer world of big tech
Recently, Apple surpassed a trillion dollar market capitalization which was also followed by Amazon a month later. At the time of writing of this, a day the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 400 points, the combined market cap of FAANG: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google is over $2.8 Trillion. The fact that a handful […]
What Game Theory Says About the Trade War
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/10/25/economy/game-theory-suggests-trade-war-could-last-long-time The article by Scott Tong of MarketPlace claims that because of what we know from Game Theory we can expect the trade war between the US and China to continue for a while. Before this trade war began the US and China had a sort of trust via World Trade Organization but with […]
The identification of shipwreck sites: a Bayesian approach
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.503.5506&rep=rep1&type=pdf According to the article, there are oftentimes instances where archeology from a shipwreck is misidentified. However, Bayes Theorem can be used to quantify the confidence that archeologists can have in the supposed vessel. The purpose of Bayes Theorem is to reach useful insights in the confidence of historical identifications. The equation is as follows: […]
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