CSCI 3350: Social & Economic Networks Lecture 1: Introduction - PDF document

1/21/2014 CSCI 3350: Social & Economic Networks Lecture 1: Introduction Mohammad T . Irfan Email: mirfan@bowdoin.edu Office Hours: Tu & Th 3 — 5pm 1/21/14 Syllabus  Course website  http://www.bowdoin.edu/~mirfan/CSCI-3350.html 1

1/21/2014 Cascades Technology adoption (today’s news) 2

1/21/2014 Arab Spring (2010 – present) Northeast blackout (2003) 3

1/21/2014 Hush puppies (1995) Baltimore STD outbreak (1995)  1995 to 1996: 500% increase  Concentration in the east and the west 4

1/21/2014 Viral videos/Facebook posts Small World 5

1/21/2014 6-degrees of separation  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLIyuYw bVnA 6-degrees of separation  Milgram’s experiment (1960s) 6

1/21/2014 The Internet Algorithms & economics of search 7

1/21/2014 Strategic decision- making in Networks Game theory 8

1/21/2014 Markets High-level questions http://www.bowdoin.edu/~mirfan/CSCI-3350.html 9

1/21/2014 Graphs Photo: TouchGraph App 10

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1/21/2014 Graphs Terminology 12