Network Analysis of Injectable Drug Users and the Spread of HIV
This article published in Science Advances in October 2022 analyzes the network of drug users (specifically injectables) and the spread of HIV. This study took place in New Delhi, India. This setting was useful in analyzing networks because it has ‘injection venues,’ defined as sites where multiple injections took place over a six month period […]
Crocs are cool again?
In lecture, we discussed how people often abandon their own information or opinion to conform and follow the herd, resulting in a herding, or an information cascade, where people make decisions sequentially by watching the actions of earlier people and inferring what they might know. Perhaps one of the clearest examples of this can be […]
How to Win the War of PageRanks
You just spent your energy, time, and money building a website for a cause you are passionate about, but it doesn’t seem to be reaching a wider audience as you aren’t getting a lot of users. You also realize that your website isn’t showing up much in Google’s search results. That is because your website […]
Game Theory Applied to Remote/Hybrid Working
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many workers have transitioned from performing their jobs in-person to a hybrid and even fully remote setting. As a result, our reliance on web-calling platforms greatly increased, and in turn, the less we saw and interacted with our colleagues. Thus, the motivations and behaviors of employees changed, and […]
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