IPC Media, a subsidiary of Time Inc., would be the best media institution to distribute Riff magazine. IPC already publishes the similar music magazine NME, giving it experience targeting the same audience. While Riff and NME have some differences, they also have similarities in focusing on rock music. IPC has successfully published magazines since the 1950s, ensuring Riff's target demographic would be reached. Time Inc. would provide attention and focus to both Riff and NME as its only music magazines.
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
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Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
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Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
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Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
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1. AND WHY?
WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION
MIGHT DISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT
2. …………………………………………………………………………………………
TIME INC.
▸ I wanted to follow the footsteps of a magazine publishing company that produce
similar style magazines as they have experience in grasping the similar target
audience through different viral campaigns. In this case I have chosen Time Inc
due to its connection with the magazine I have mentioned and referred to my
research multiple times, NME.
3. ………………………………………………………………………………………….
.
IPC MEDIA
▸ After doing some more research on the institutions of my media products distributor, I
discovered that IPC is a subsidiary company of Time Inc that focuses on the
distribution and publication of NME. They will also do the same for Riff magazine due
to the similarities of the two magazines, however they have different content features
such as ‘riffs rare finds’ and the key target demographic itself has certain differences
etc. Moreover this magazine company has been very experienced as it has been
focusing in magazine and online publishing since the 1950’s ensuring that the target
demographic is reached throughout this process.
4. ………………………………………………………………………………………….
.
OTHER MAGAZINES FROM IPC/TIME INC
▸Here are some other
magazines that were
presented on the website of
IPC. As you can see NME is
the only largely recognisable
music magazine and one of
the only ones featured in this
list. This encourages the fact
that the music magazine
section has little variation
ensuring more focus on this
one in particular, moreover
adding Riff to this list, it will
also have lots of attention
from the music side of this
company.
5. ………………………………………………………………………………………….
.
ADVANTAGES//DISADVANTAGES
▸Advantages
▸has more room to focus on the music
magazines
▸NME is a similar style of magazine
▸Same music genre - able to reach out to the
audience with no trouble due to previous
experience with NME
▸Has many other successful magazines on
board
▸Originated in 1950s, it is now 2017 (67
years…)
▸very successful music magazine apart of
the company
Disadvantages
- NME could be seen as too similar
- there is a slight difference in the social group target
market - age range
- only 1 music magazine - other music magazines don't
want to be apart of this company…?
- too many magazines apart of the company already…
VS
6. ………………………………………………………………………………………….
.
SUCCESS
▸ The success of the music magazine (other viral campaigns such as a stage at
reading/leeds, a website, an awards ceremony and other social media
networks) NME has received from the public and reporters, this indicates that
IPC/Time inc is a very good company to work with who ensure reliability of
audience participation in grabbing a copy from their local HMV (now for free!!).
Moreover, Riff will fit in very well alongside NME due to their major similarities,
but still differs due to the actual content itself as Riff mainly focuses on new
bands on the rock scene, where as NME gets big stars on their front cover
promoting themselves even more!
7. ………………………………………………………………………………………….
.
▸ In conclusion, I believe that Time inc is the perfect match for Riff magazine due
to its success with NME and also it has room for more music based magazines
of the similar genre considering that the magazines aren't identical which is why
Riff has a focus on the alternative side of rock with links to psychedelic and
indie rock already devising a different magazine content and features within it.
Adding onto that, IPC is very reliable due to its continuous work since the
1950s publishing and distributing magazines within the UK.
