Bayes Rule for Soccer Predictions Ahead of the World Cup
https://medium.com/codex/football-analytics-using-bayesian-network-for-analyzing-xg-expected-goals-705e63e597c2 Every four years, the entire world comes together to watch 32 countries with the best national football teams fight for a chance at the glorious World Cup. Simply by it’s name, The World Cup, it’s prestige and importance are highlighted for what it is, the most important sporting event in the world. But as […]
Information Cascades in Kenya’s Pre-Election Disinformation
Kenya just ended a closely contested presidential election on August 8th, in which H.E William Ruto defeated Hon Raila Odinga to rule the country for the next five years. Unlike previous elections, however, this year’s race was primarily fought on social media platforms, with each candidate hiring teams of social media bigwigs to push their […]
Information Cascades on Social Media
In class we’ve recently covered the topic of information cascades. By definition, an information cascade is a phenomenon where a number of people make the same decision in a sequential fashion based on little initial information and each person’s decision is heavily influenced by observing the people before them. In essence, it’s a decision snowball […]
Information Cascades and Twitter
Social media platforms have allowed people around the world to connect and share information. Around 71% of Americans now get their news from major social media outlets such as Twitter, Meta and Youtube instead of print and television media. However, these same platforms have been accused of fostering hate speech and the proliferation of fake […]