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Category: Work

  • Visualizing Link Communities

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    When YY Ahn, Jim Bagrow, and I published our paper on communities of links in complex networks, we did share the code for the algorithm, but one of the essentials missing from our package was a good way to visualize the highly overlapping link communities. Thus, I’m delighted to report that Rob Spencer over at Scaled…

  • The end of Supporting Material?

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    Maybe this is how it happens: You see an interesting (seemingly innocuous) paper and decide to read it. Upon finding it very information-dense, you decide to take a look at the supporting information (SI) and notice that the SI has a word count greater in size than an average PhD thesis. Or maybe it’s when…

  • Mood, twitter, and the new shape of America

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    Twitter is a gigantic repository for our collective state of mind. Every second, thousands of tweets reveal what everybody and their mother had for lunch, what Justin Bieber is up to, or what magnificent link you should be checking out right now. Individually, each tweet is mostly interesting to friends/fans of the tweeter, but taken…

  • Pervasive Overlap

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    Just recently, I came across the following video showing LinkedIn chief scientist DJ Patil explaining the egocentric networks (networks consisting of an individual and their immediate friends) for a few individuals based on their LinkedIn connections. Although the individuals in the center of these egocentric networks are unusual (in the sense that they have many…

  • An animation

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    A couple of days ago, David Lazer asked me to help him generate an animation of the spread of MFN (trade) treaties in the 1860s. His resulting post on The emergence of international order: The case of MFN treaties in the 1860’s is worth a read! Also, David’s post sparked a nice follow up blog…