#Social Mobilization #Social Networks Limits of social mobilization Authors: Alex Rutherford, Manuel Cebrian, Sohan Dsouza, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland, and Iyad Rahwan Journal: PNAS 110 (16), 6281-6286 (2013) LINK ...
#Science #theory when does emulation count as explanation? To me, the main question when modeling a process in the social sciences is "when does emulation count as explanation?" ...
#Social Networks #Human Behavior #Strategies Time as a limited resource: Communication Strategy in Mobile Phone Networks Authors: Giovanna Miritello, Esteban Moro, Rubén Lara, Rocío Martínez-López, Sam G. B. Roberts, Robin I. M. Dunbar Journal: Social Networks 35, 89 (2013) LINK | arXiv ...
#R #Temporal Networks #igraph Temporal networks with igraph and R (with 20 lines of code!) **UPDATE**: the version of the R code in this post does not work with newer versions of the igraph package (\> 1.0). I have posted an updated version of this post here: [Temporal networks with R and … ...
Preferential attachment: be first Preferential attachment is a key process governing the dynamics of many economic, social and biological process. It is the “The rich get richer” mechanism by which a quantity is distributed among … ...
#R #Temporal Networks #igraph #Twitter #Social Networks Temporal network of information diffusion in Twitter Millions of tweets, retweets and mentions are exchanged in Twitter everyday about very different subjects, events, opinions, etc. While aggregating this data over a time window might help to … ...
Algorithms and Management Yesterday I gave a talk in the 6th IIC Technology Conference about how Social Contagion can be leveraged for marketing purposes. The motto of the conference was about the need of using Algorithms in … ...
#Social Networks #Recommendation algorithms #Stochastic Blocks Predicting Human Preferences Using the Block Structure of Complex Social Networks Authors: Roger Guimerà, Alejandro Llorente, Esteban Moro y Marta Sales-Pardo Journal: PLoS ONE 7, e44620 (2012) LINK ...
It was a delicious assignment, infinitely complicated I have just read an amazing book “Shibumi” by Trevanian (a.k.a. Rodney William Whitaker) probably the best spy novel I have read so far. In the book, a big data computer (called Fat Boy) … ...
Which chart to use In most of my talks I present quantitative evidence of patterns, data exploration or results. But which is the right way to show that evidence? Worry no more: the Extreme Presentation Method helps you … ...
