Could Kevin Bacon have saved us from the 2008 financial crisis? Probably not. But the network science behind six degrees of Kevin Bacon just well may have.
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Virality Prediction and Community Structure in Social Networks
How does network structure affect diffusion? Recent studies suggest that the answer depends on the type of contagion. Complex contagions, unlike infectious diseases (simple contagions), are affected by social reinforcement and homophily.
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Author information 1Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison, Wisconsin.
Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters
Conversations on Twitter create networks with identifiable contours as people reply to and mention one another in their tweets. These conversational structures differ, depending on the subject and the people driving the conversation.
Using Metadata to find Paul Revere
London, 1772. I have been asked by my superiors to give a brief demonstration of the surprising effectiveness of even the simplest techniques of the new-fangled Social Networke Analysis in the pursuit of those who would seek to undermine the liberty enjoyed by His Majesty’s subjects.
Cupid in your network
Single and secretly wondering which of your friends might be able to introduce you to your future soulmate? Sociologists have long studied the dating pool problem, noting that an acquaintance is more likely to introduce you to your mate than a close friend is.
Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters
Conversations on Twitter create networks with identifiable contours as people reply to and mention one another in their tweets. These conversational structures differ, depending on the subject and the people driving the conversation.
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the definitive difference between Funny and LOL
The DEFINITIVE difference between ‘Funny’ and ‘LOL’! (tap here) … a tappable version of my #datagotham talk from 9/9/13 … (keep tapping) Network Graphs are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. Graphs are really great for working with social data.
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Infoodation 