Responses to COVID-19
Measures taken against COVID-19 can be tied to the different basic reproductive numbers, or R0. Masks comprised of different materials make a huge influence in contact rates for the COVID-19 virus. Throughout the pandemic, several types of masks were mass-produced to protect people from the airborne virus: blue-surgical, N95s, and homemade cloth […]
Mean Girls – Explaining the Unexplainable Social Phenomenon with Information Cascades
Many of us can think of a time that someone more socially powerful than us has made us or our friends feel bad. We are left wondering why mean people come into social power when the majority of people don’t like them? We can answer this question through information cascades. Every group of friends is […]
Bayesian Probability in Basic Sentiment Analysis
One of the most interesting and surprising applications of bayesian probability is it’s usefulness in sentiment analysis. You might be surprised at just how useful bayes theorem is in a field such as sentiment analysis (and, to more extents, machine learning in general), but actually, it is quite fascinating just how useful they are. The […]