Models of infectious diseases
This article by Martin Lamonica was about how the spread of the coronavirus can be explained in mathematical terms that we have discussed in class. The article discusses the concept of “flattening the curve” at length, which directly relates to our study of epidemiology and branching models. The article introduces the concept of exponential growth […]
Network Effect: Who is Going to Win the Mobile Operating System War? iOS or Android?
Now a day, Android and iOS are the two operating systems that dominate the global mobile operating system market. As demonstrated by the bellowed stacked column graph, Android and iOS are seizing the market share of other operating systems before they become dominant players. Android and iOS are Taking Over the Global Market We can […]
Collective Behaviour in Street Crossings
A collective behaviour situation encountered by everyone near-daily is crossing the street, whether at intersections with or without traffic signals. Without traffic signals, the collective behaviour is obvious: if a group is attempting to cross, as soon as one person crosses every other person immediately assesses the cost-benefit of crossing and the individual knowledge of […]
Striketober
In the wake of a pandemic that disproportionately affected low-wage workers who did not have the luxury of staying at home, there has been a rise in worker strikes and work stoppages. According to research done by Cornell’s ILR school, there have been 185 strikes this year at 255 locations across the country, with 40 […]
Key Opinion Leaders in the Healthcare Space
In class, we introduced the network diffusion model. When a new technology, product, or idea is first introduced, how efficient they diffuse through a network depends not only on people’s value on them but also the number of initial users and who they are. We have also verified in homework problems that even with the […]
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