New Study Using Massive LinkedIn Data Presents Strong Casual Empirical Evidence for “Weak Ties” Theory
A September 2022 paper called A Casual Test of The Strength that published in Science by Karthik Rajkumar et al. investigated the casual validity of Mark Granovetter’s “weak ties” theory which claims that people are likelier to get opportunities to new jobs from acquaintances and other people that they are at “arm’s length” relationships. […]
Clickbait and AdSense
As society progresses to a more technologically dependent state, and in the context of the social media age, interdisciplinary research is required to understand the varying ramifications of such a transition. Specifically, clickbait has run rampant. It has been the result of click-through incentives: the pay-per-click algorithm that generates revenue for advertisers. Yet, consequently, this […]
Development of Anti-spam PageRank algorithms
Article: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7960003 In class, we explored web search algorithms and specifically, the PageRank algorithm, which is used by the Google search engine to rank web pages in search results. It works with the assumption that highly ranked pages are referenced a lot, and by other highly ranked pages as well. In class and in the […]
How Extremists Manipulate PageRank
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/16/google-autocomplete-rightwing-bias-algorithm-political-propaganda Google’s PageRank Algorithm, despite being one of the most advanced in the industry, still relies on the same basic functions of PageRank that we have discussed in class. How many links reference a site, how many other sites that site links to, and how much traffic a site receives, are among the most important […]
Perfect Matching in World Marathon Major Selecting
In the world of elite marathoning, most professional marathon runners run 2 marathons each year. Marathoners dedicate three to four months of preparation for this singular, 26.2 mile race, so it is crucial for them to select the correct marathon. There are 6 marathons that make up the Abbott World Marathon Majors: Tokyo, Boston, London, […]
Cascades in Social Media (Fashion)
Social media itself is a great platform for information cascades to take place within the 21st century. In a world of ever changing fashion and trends, it is hard to not find yourself “following the crowd” in some aspect. With social media and the large range of personalities and unique designs, there is more often than […]
Google search: why is is so calculated and benefits large companies
Everything that shows up on our google page is their for a specific reasons. When we search “restaurants near me” there is a specific reason that the specific restaurants that show up, show up in the order that it is. Sometimes it is because some companies actually pay google for an advertisement per click. This […]
Power in the Oil Trade Network
With the current state of global affairs and OPEC agreeing to cut oil production again, I thought it would be interesting to look at the network mechanics behind why certain oil producing countries wield so much power, and how they are able to collectively determine prices in the market. If we look at the […]
Uber’s Perfect Matchings
https://www.uber.com/us/en/marketplace/matching/ Uber is a ridesharing app that matches riders to drivers in practically no time based on the location of the rider and the driver and the desired destination of the rider. The algorithm by which they do this is comparable to the perfect matching we discussed in class. Uber uses a matching algorithm […]
Multi-unit auction with minimum bid threshold – Android default search engine
In 2019, Google announced an auction in which rival search companies would be able to bid to have their names listed on a new choice screen that allows Android users in the European Union to select their default provider. This change was set to take place in 2020: users setting up a new Android smartphone […]
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