Analyzing Anti-Vaxxer Networks on Facebook
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/anti-vaxxers-social-networks-are-ripe-with-people-susceptible-to-their In the past decade, many previously fringe beliefs have risen in popularity due to the prevalence of social media. This article summarizes a study from Neil Johnson, a George Washington University researcher, in which he maps the spread of one such belief: anti-vaccination. Johnson and company model the behavior of 100 million Facebook users […]
Confronting Sexism in the Workplace
Gender equality is a fundamental human and essential to all societies. Despite efforts made to close inequality gaps, much work still needs to be done in order to achieve full gender equality, including in the US, where sexism can occur every day in a woman’s workplace. Raina Brands and Aneeta Rattan from the London Business […]
Game Theory Behind Early College Athlete Recruitment
Source: https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1131&context=etd From the rise of American football as the first college sport in the late 1850s to the billion dollar industry of the NCAA in 2016, college sports of all kinds have become a staple of every college campus. On a campus to campus level, well-performing teams have the potential to bring in millions […]
Witnessing and Testing Braess’s Paradox
Braess’s paradox describes a seemingly counterintuitive phenomenon of traffic systems in which adding resources to the network at equilibrium will actually hurt performance (Easley, 2010). Because driver’s choose their route of travel based on their Nash equilibria, adding a new road can provide a new best response that actually increases travel time overall. In this […]
Positive and Negative Relationships: #NiUnaMenos Movement in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is currently having a crisis in the surge of gender violence cases in the island. Just two weeks ago, 20 year old Rosimar Rodriguez Gomez was kidnapped in front of her home after leaving her father’s birthday. Her family quickly reported the kidnapping, but the police treated the case as a missing person’s […]
Game Theory of Bitcoin
Source 1: https://blockgeeks.com/guides/cryptocurrency-game-theory/ Source 2: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3212998 With Bitcoin being mentioned on the latest problem set, I thought it would be interesting to delve further into it for this blog post. It will be about Bitcoin and the game theory topics it encompasses, specifically with the mining process. One of the main breakthroughs that Bitcoin brought […]
Networks of co-purchase books shows partisan difference in reading
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0079?error=database_circuit_open&error_description=Database%20is%20temporarily%20unavailable When shopping online, there is usually a display of other products that are co-purchased by those who have previously bought the listed item. This article took full advantage of the co-purchase data of books to rate the political orientation of seemingly apolitical disciplines (such as natural sciences.) To be specific, the political relevance of […]
Trusting the GPS VS. The Tried and True Route Prisoner’s Dilemma
https://econlife.com/2019/06/mapping-apps-problem/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/mapping-apps-and-the-price-of-anarchy/555551/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOkYK2yuyeM&feature=youtu.be https://econlife.com/2018/04/traffic-apps-impact/ https://www.governancenow.com/views/columns/traffic-game-theory As technology progresses at an exponential rate, more and more traffic and GPS apps are flooding the digital market place. From Waze, to Google Maps, to Apple Maps, and trusty MapQuest, there is a multitude of ways for commuters to speed up their morning drives. Where there used to be […]
TikTok, Trump, and Network Exchange
On September 14th, 2020, it was officially announced that Oracle and Walmart won the bid for TikTok in the US. Several other companies were hoping to win the bid for TikTok, including Microsoft. TikTok is a widespread social media platform featuring short videos. The nature of these videos include music trends or skits and are […]
Facebook, The Philippines, and Spam Accounts
On September 27, President Rodrigo Duerte of the Philippines lashed out at Facebook for taking down fake accounts that supported his policies. He went as far as to make vague threats to shut the platform down in the Philippines. The company said last week that it had taken down two networks, one based in China […]
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