How game theory can solve vaccine inequity
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-022-00173-w The COVID-19 pandemic has made us think differently about public health policy, and it has emphasized the urgency for us to better recognize the different motivators of policy implementation. COVID-19 vaccines were developed at ground-breaking speeds, which have allowed many countries to combat the pandemic and return to (some) normality. However, we have seen […]
Graphs as adjacency matrices
In class, we have calculated connected components of various graphs. In this post, I wanted to introduce another way of calculating connected components, aside from visual inspection. As a reminder, we define nodes as the vertices in the graph, and edges as the connections between vertices. In practice, it can become quite laborious to sketch […]
Weak Ties in the Workplace
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-022-00296-z It is no question that the COVID-19 pandemic has made an impact on the social networks of those in the United States and around the world. The widespread effects of the pandemic ranging from quarantine mandates to financial strain have been influential in the destruction of weak ties in social networks. In […]