Supply Chain Network Expansion in the Current Day and Age
The world with its vast 8 billion people and millions of industries is all interconnected through many nodes and edges. People, businesses, governments, organizations, etc. are all connected. With billions of connections that span distances of tens of thousands of miles, how is the world so efficient at providing supply chain solutions to businesses and […]
Braess’s Paradox: Exploring its Limitations in a City Like Los Angeles
Braess’s Paradox, a captivating theory in traffic and network dynamics, suggests a counterintuitive scenario where adding roads to a transportation network can lead to increased congestion. This concept has intrigued experts in various fields, from mathematicians to urban planners. However, its relevance in a sprawling city like my home of Los Angeles becomes significantly diluted […]
Unraveling Social Ties: A New Perspective on Edge Strength Inference
Discussed throughout the early portion of this class, Strong triadic closer is a concept which determines the nature of the interconnectivity presented to us via a network graph. I would like to end my time in this class by discussing the paper “Relaxing the strong triadic closure problem for edge strength inference’. This paper showcases […]
Networks are around us more than we think
Admittedly, when I first registered to take this class, it was to fulfill a requirement towards the Information Science major, however, the longer I continued in the course, the more I came to realize that networks are all around us. Although we may not consciously think about them, networks govern every interaction that we make. […]
Final Exam Scheduling – A Perfect Matching Problem
The Matching Problem Cornell University has over 2,500 final exams and final deliveries to schedule over the Fall exam period, consisting of 8 days between December 8th – December 16th. Exams can occur at 9:00am, 12:00pm, 2:00pm, 4:30pm, and 7:00pm, for a sum of 5 exam slots per day per 9 days, or 5 * […]
Homophily and Murder
Apart from Info 2040, there are other classes that discuss relevant topics about connectivity and networks. In Info 2450 Communication and Technology, homophily is described as the tendency for people with similar values and goals to become acquainted with each other. This can often lead to partiality when the network is homogenous. As we reaffirm […]
Networks and the Future of Society
Today I found three New York Times articles that do a great job of connecting what we’ve learned in class to our world in 2023. The articles – “Has the Age of Mass Protest Actually Achieved Anything?”, “The Future of Social Media Is a Lot Less Social”, and “What Even Is a Social Network Anymore?” […]
Braess’s paradox and google maps
One aspect of this class I really loved was when we talked about various paradoxes. When we talked about Braess’s paradox I think it is so interesting to think about the evolution of how it can be applied to our lives. 200 years ago when people were traveling on foot or by horse they had […]
“In college, weak ties are stronger than you think”
Max Feldman’s article in The Michigan Daily, “In college, weak ties are stronger than you think,” sheds light on the often-underestimated value of weak ties in a university setting, particularly at the University of Michigan. Feldman discusses how acquaintances, those individuals we know casually from classes or dorms, play a significant role in enriching the […]
The many degrees of Erdos – and Bacon!
An interesting phenomenon in the world of mathematics networks is something called the Erdős number. Paul Erdős was an influential mathematician from Hungary who published over 1,500 mathematical articles and collaborated with hundreds of mathematicians and scientists from all over the world. Erdős himself is assigned an Erdős number of zero. A direct collaborator of […]
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