Tag: distribution
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Predict Attention in Social Networks
People distribute attention according to a power-law distribution. Power-laws have long been associated with distribution of quantity of links individuals in social networks have. My on-going research suggests that power-laws not only describe distributions at the network level, they also describe distribution at the individual level. We communicate in a power-law distribution with our contacts,…
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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…