Information Cascades of Dining through Tiktok
When individuals want to find suggestions on where to go to restaurants for dining, many will go to Google or Yelp based on reviews from individuals who have previously dined there. The article attached below discusses how millennials are heavily influenced by Tiktok in visiting a restaurant after seeing it on the app. Many restaurants […]
Fake News and Advertising Firms
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-fake-news-ad-economy-20161208-story.html It is increasingly easy to generate revenue by simply attracting people to your website via ads. This revenue comes from having ad space on your own page which is auctioned off through a platform such as google to make the ads targeted towards the specific user. While this is useful for content creators, it […]
Perfect Kidney Matching and Time
Link: https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=rhumj Commentary: While learning about bipartite graphs and perfect matching, I began to wonder how perfect matching occurs in the real world outside of the example of auctions. Specifically, I wondered how perfect matching occurred when other quantifiers were used outside of money, such as time. As I looked through different real-life applications of […]