Misinformation Spreading Like a Virus?
With COVID-19 at the forefront of most people’s minds, information cascades and diffusion patterns can help explain the topic shifts on social media relevant to the pandemic. In the article, “Covid or Not Covid? Topic Shift in Information Cascades on Twitter”, the authors discuss the presence of public figures, or individuals whose tweets are more […]
The Kardashians and Diffusion
The Kardashian family is a household name across the US and even around the world. Known for their reality TV show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, their social media platforms, and for their drama, the family has always been on the receiving end of scrutiny and attention. As of December 2020, Kylie Jenner is the […]
Covid-19 and Misinformation: Two Epidemics At Once
I used data from the New York Times to analyze the relationship between the percent of a county’s residents who voted for President Donald Trump in the most recent presidential election and the number of covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in the county as compared to the total for the state. First, I randomly selected […]
Is the Market for Hiring Developers a Market for Lemons?
Some people in the profession of hiring believe that great developers are impossible to find which means that if you can find someone, they’re not great. Joel Spolsky writes that great developers are usually the ones who prospective employers recognize as great swiftly, which means, they get to work wherever they want, so they don’t […]