Power Laws and the Rich get Richer Effect in Research Papers
When reading about a web page’s popularity through in-links being demonstrated by the equation 1/k^2, I wondered if the same applied to published research papers, which reference each other’s ideas and findings as an acknowledgment of inspiration/source. This notion of citations directly parallels our discussion of in-links; when a new research paper cites another one, […]
Network Effects of Similar Movies
Why are some movies simply more popular than others, especially if the subject of the movie is extremely similar? The digital spy outlines 14 instances where movies of the same topic/concept were released during the same year and which one became the box office victor. The above example demonstrates one instance of such, the Matrix […]