How Adding Additional Roads Can Make Travel Times Slower
During the past week of class, we examined how drivers behave when they are trying to get from one point to another given a certain number of available routes, and learned how to model this systems as networks. Matt Largey’s article for Austin’s NPR station, “How Closing Roads Can Make Traffic Flow Smoother” directly relates […]
Virtual Gerrymandering
In recent years, technological advances and increasing use of social media/networks have changed the way information flows through society. With the upcoming US elections in 2020, the influence of network connections matters because people often shift their own voting preferences based on perceptions of others’ voting intentions and shared information across social media networks. An […]
A Houstonian’s Perspective on Traffic
Engines of our Ingenuity Podcast While there have been numerous posts about Braess’ Paradox and the effects of increasing roadways on traffic, I believe that I have a unique perspective on this as a native Houstonian, a city ranked in the top 20 nationally and top 200 globally for traffic congestion. Seeing as Houston is […]
Global Climate Strike
Yesterday, I participated in the climate strike at Cornell, one instance of the global climate strike that was occurring all over the world; incidentally, that’s why this post is a day late. I had initially planned to spend my Friday afternoon getting homework done and hopefully getting ahead on my work for the next week. […]
Computational Courtship: Understanding the Evolution of Online Dating through Large-scale Data Analysis
Recently in class, we’ve been learning about matching markets and various examples of these, such as online dating or even pairing applying students with internships. I found a research paper published by researchers at Oxford which is relevant to this topic, as it analyzes how online dating has evolved through large-scale data analysis and delves […]
More Roads, More Traffic?
https://www.curbed.com/2019/8/5/20754435/houston-traffic-highway-i-45-north-txdot Across the world, it is not a secret that the United States is a nation that runs primarily by cars and other motor vehicles as primary modes of transportation. In fact, a study from the U.S. Department of Transportation even admits this fact, stating in a graph title that “Congestion Has Grown Substantially in […]
Applying game theory to HR
Posted to an online media group, “Applying game theory to HR,” is an article that explores decision making in the workplace. Firstly, the article examines the possible actions of a company: it could either invest in educational training for an employee that would benefit both the company and the worker, or it could not invest. […]
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