Network Diffusion in Sports Preferences
Many people are familiar with the American obsession with football, and the UK’s similar attitude towards soccer. Countless weekends in the United States are spent in front of the TV with a college football or NFL game occupying the screen. In the UK, fans often watch the Premier League (a top soccer league) or other […]
Maximizing Search Engine
https://www.practicalecommerce.com/10-do-it-yourself-seo-tips-to-save-money When marketing is a priority in a company, appearing in the primary web searches becomes one of the main strategies the marketing team aims for. These webs include Google, Yahoo, Bing, and many other engines, and there aren’t many other marketing strategies that can enhance customers’ accessibility than being one of the first to […]
Multiplayer Video Games and Network Effects
2016 was a massive year for class-based multiplayer first-person shooter video games, but not for one of the hottest prospects in the genre at the time: Battleborn. Unless you’re a serious gamer, you probably haven’t heard of the videogame Battleborn; its relative anonymity is for good reason, the game failed in the months following launch. […]
Twitch Raiding: Sharing Audiences Through Collective Action or Cyberterrorism?
Twitch is a popular live streaming platform that, at the time of writing this, has 140 million active monthly users. The site, twitch.tv, is home to several online personalities—dubbed “streamers”—who live stream content to people worldwide. Everything from video games such as World of Warcraft to chatting to viewers while swimming in a hot tub […]
Network Solutions for Medical Bias
Link to Article: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/Penn-study-clinician-peer-networks-remove-race-gender-bias Throughout my time at Cornell, I have been in several classes that have discussed bias within the medical field. We examined patterns of bias and the long-term effects they have on both individual and community health. Almost everyone can recognize that bias in the medical is a huge issue and […]
Perron-Frobenius, the power behind PageRank
In Chapter 14, we looked at how we can rank webpages by using an algorithm called PageRank. PageRank starts by giving each nodes an initial PageRank of 1/n where n is the number of nodes in the network. Then, each node’s PageRank is updated by first, dividing up it’s PageRank to its out-going links, and […]
Influence Cascades and Behavioral Influence Patterns in Social Media
An article published through MDPI describes the effects of influence cascades and how they are constructed as a result of social media influence. This article gives an overall approach of different OSN’s and gives analysis that specifies how these different OSN’s (twitter and GitHub) are significantly effected by social media influence regarding cryptocurrencies in addition […]
Bayes’s Theorem and the COVID Vaccine
This article uses a Bayesian approach to determine the efficacy, or the effectiveness, of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. Like all vaccines, Pfizer tested their newly developed vaccine by having 2 groups: a control group and experimental group. The control group received 2 doses of a placebo vaccine, and the experimental group received 2 doses of […]
App Store and Power Laws
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/apples-big-commission-cut-will-cost-only-2-of-app-store-revenue-according-to-one-estimate/?sh=5f7961314a14 How often do you see the top app of the app store change? I would say not very often. For years we have seen apps like Spotify, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube constantly and consistently topping the charts. According to the above article, “94% of App Store Revenue goes to just 1% of developers”. Considering […]
Decentralized Web 3.0 and NFT
https://www.newsbtc.com/news/company/breaking-down-borders-in-the-nft-world/ https://bitcoinist.com/cyber-a-search-engine-for-web-3/ In the class we learned about sponsored search and web structures that includes social networks and markets where people exchange information and interact with each other. However, the idea of web that these concepts were based upon, from my understanding, is more of Web 2.0 where there is a ‘owner’ of […]
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