How We Know Us

Tag: analysis

  • Game Theory + Network Analysis = ?; An Example

    During one Saturday in the beginning of November, I took part in a multi-party negotiation, which had some surprising results. Out of curiosity, I mapped who wanted what from whom, and ran a basic network analysis.  The second surprise of the day was the analysis was really close to the observed results. I hope this…

  • Friendship: #1 factor in whom we spend time with

    Like all good science, analyzing social networks sometimes works out to proving things we always thought were true. Sometimes, we never even had any idea how right we were. For example, we really do spend more time with people we like. A few really bright folks from MIT and the Kennedy School, have a paper…

  • Lower Limits on Social Network Analysis: Just Ask

    Are there lower limits to the size of Social Networks worth analyzing?  The upper limit seems to be a function of how much time (and compute power) you have, but the lower? When we do analyses, these are certain characteristics we look for as verification that our models hold.  A key characteristic is the shape…

  • Social Networks of the Senate

    I always enjoy analyzing social networks (SN’s) that have had a lot less press than the Goliaths of MySpace and Facebook.  I have done an awful lot of them, but one of my favorites was looking at the co-sponsorship patterns in the US Senate, 110th session (the current one). This analysis was especially enjoyable because…