An Analysis of Wikiracing and the Web as a Network
https://medium.com/@hadrien.croubois/cheating-at-wikirace-an-incite-on-the-wikipedia-network-dda261496f8f In class we learned that the structure of the web can be closely approximated by the structure of Wikipedia and the pages it contains. Pages have incoming links which we can’t see and outgoing links which are shown referenced on pages. By clicking on these links one can navigate through the web. Wikipedia is […]
Matching Prices during the Holiday Season
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/18/business/retail-holiday-shopping.html Due to inflation, it has become harder and harder for people to shell out the money they used to spend on holiday purchases. Almost a quarter of retail sales happen during the holiday season, so less spending by consumers poses a big problem for retailers. This means that retailers have had to lay off […]
Following the Crowd
https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/Health/story?id=1495038 Do humans have the needs to conform? This article provides two scientific experiments conducted by a professor from Emory University, on how and why people tend to follow the crowd and conform to the majority. According to the article, there are two ways to explain conformist behavior. The first one is that people know […]