Tag: networks
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Communication Method, Scale, and Entropy
In a surprise to Marshall McLuhan, we see ad hoc conversations conducted through different electronic media demonstrating very similar scaling characteristics across number of nodes, number of edges, and number of unique edges. Looking at email lists, IRC, and long-term twitter searches, we more similarity than difference between the three media. However, when look at the…
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Bernanke: Individual power increases network risk
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank will consider discarding its long- standing aversion to interfering with asset-price bubbles and warned that the banking business may be concentrated in too few companies. Sounds familiar.
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Bailouts: Understanding Risk in a Networked Economy
Individual power increases network risk. When the power goes, so does the network. But, this risk can also mobilize everyone else to buoy up the network by supporting the powerful (AIG rescue) or group cooperation (bailout lobbying). When a power fails, there will be painful redistribution of wealth (Lehman Brothers) and the market as new…
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Visualizing Your Professional Networks
I spend much of my waking time thinking about how relationships between individuals in groups effect the behavior of the individuals and of the group itself. One tool I recently put together looks at professional relationships from LinkedIn.com. Attached is a representation of the relationships between the 17,000 people my work contacts know. This is…