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1/22/18 DCS/CSCI 2350: Social & Economic Networks Introduction Mohammad T . Irfan Email: mirfan@bowdoin.edu Class Website: http://www.bowdoin.edu/~mirfan/DCS-2350.html Office Hours: Tu & W 2:305 (VAC 309) TA: Vianney Gomezgil


  1. 1/22/18 DCS/CSCI 2350: Social & Economic Networks Introduction Mohammad T . Irfan Email: mirfan@bowdoin.edu Class Website: http://www.bowdoin.edu/~mirfan/DCS-2350.html Office Hours: Tu & W 2:30—5 (VAC 309) TA: Vianney Gomezgil Yaspik (W 7—9 pm, VAC 305) Syllabus and required background u Course website u http://www.bowdoin.edu/~mirfan/DCS-2350.html 1

  2. 1/22/18 Connections 2012 2

  3. 1/22/18 Cascades 3

  4. 1/22/18 Technology adoption Bitcoins 4

  5. 1/22/18 Viral Facebook posts (2013) Arab Spring (2010 – 2014) 5

  6. 1/22/18 Northeast blackout (2003) Hush puppies (1995) 6

  7. 1/22/18 Baltimore STD outbreak (1995) u 1995 to 1996: 500% increase Lafayette Ct Lexington Tr Iconic photo of Lafayette Court housing Small World 7

  8. 1/22/18 6-degrees of separation u Milgram’s experiment (1960s) The Internet 8

  9. 1/22/18 Algorithms & economics of search Strategic decision- making in Networks 9

  10. 1/22/18 Game theory Markets 60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked NY Times 10

  11. 1/22/18 Graphs Unifying element among all these stories Photo: TouchGraph App 11

  12. 1/22/18 12

  13. 1/22/18 Next… Graphs 13

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