A 5 minute presentation I gave as part of a group project on Social Network Analysis in March 2014.
Here we look at how (and if) social networking services have had a sizable impact on the way influence ripples through a network.
Thanks to N. Christakis et al, Bakshy et al. A full bibliography and a more verbose explanation of the ideas and work behind this presentation can be found here: http://bit.ly/1faqcTG
8. The largest connected subcomponent involving 2,200 individuals in 2000 from the
Framingham Heart Study Social Network. Each node represents one person.
9. 0
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Degrees of Separation in the
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Increaseinchanceof
becomingobese
14. CONFOUNDING
My colleagues and I have been smoking 60 cigarettes per
day since we started working at Marlboro. But then again, it
might be a coincidence.
*lights 3 cigarettes at once*
31. The position we occupy in our network
shapes our experience of it.
32. –Mark Zuckerberg
“Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was
built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more
open and connected.”