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Organization of Evolutionary Populations through Graph Theory

https://www.wired.com/story/this-mutation-math-shows-how-life-keeps-on-evolving/ A team of scientists in Australia and the United States have mapped the evolution and natural selection of species through construction of large population graphs. From their analyses, they’ve concluded that because of the randomness that occurs naturally in evolution, it isn’t certain whether advantageous mutations in individuals will contribute to the evolution of […]

For Sale at YouTube: Political Ad Space in 2020

At a marketing event in May of 2019, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the video streaming platform had officially reached 2 billion monthly users. This reaffirmed its already very secure position as the largest player in online video by audience size. Since then, Alphabet Inc., YouTube’s parent company, has continually been taking major steps […]

Callisto – Networks in Sexual Assault Reporting

Project Callisto is a tool for victims and survivors of sexual assault to join a network of mental health and legal support. The underlying technology that Callisto is hinged on is basic principles of networks: the principle of structural balance and the principle of triadic closure. On Callisto, when a person experiences sexual assault, they […]

Amazon Growing as an Advertising Platform?

While Google still has the monopoly on ad sales, Amazon is increasingly growing, making more and more advertisers think about using Amazon as an advertising platform. It seems like a no-brainer for companies selling tangible products to advertise on Amazon, as it is one of the largest online shopping platforms around today. Ads on Amazon […]

Google Page Rank

Our page rank algorithm has some similarities and differences to that of Google. This video briefly explains the gist of how Google ranks its pages. When we performed the page rank in class, we had a set of hub sites and a set of authority. Each authority site obtains it points from the sum of […]

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