Introduction As a huge fan of basketball I was curious to see if if the concepts taught in CSCC46 could be applied to a network analysis of the NBA. Turns out a student at UCLA named Biancheng Wang wrote a thesis analyzing social networks in the NBA. In this paper they analyze the network of […]
Introduction I’ve always been a big sports fan. One of the things that always interested me, and many similar to me are the various rivalries that exist between sports teams. These competitions between teams create excitement, suspense, and really gets the fans involved with the players on the team. For example, I personally used to […]
Introduction Sina Weibo is one of the most popular blogging services in China. The total user number of Sina Weibo now reaches 582 million this year. Factors affecting user activities have received significant attention from the research communities. Why is this important? Learning how user activities are affected could help the application provide more precise […]
Introduction: Sports are increasing in popularity with many sports teams with millions of fans across the world. Every fan wants to see their team succeed and win championships. In order for sport teams to improve and have chemistry coaches hold practices with drills so that the team can improve as a unit. This article goes […]
Introduction Every year there are countless students looking for job opportunities as they are finishing up their studies. LinkedIn, being one of the most popular networking platform, has recently published a study testing a social-scientific theory known as the “strength of weak ties” with surprising findings that would enable the platform to more effectively help […]
Importance of Traffic Management Traffic management is critical in controlling the flow of traffic while also mitigating collisions. There are various systems of traffic control that are used around the world. The dominant traffic system used in Canada is traffic lights. Figure 1 displays a positive trend of the total population of Canada from 1999 […]
Introduction Stardew Valley is a farming sim that includes a plethora of activities, not just limited to farming: from mining rare geodes to fighting sinister monsters, there is plenty to do in the valley. To give a brief explanation of how Stardew Valley works, players start out on their grandfather’s rundown farm, where they may […]
Introduction The year is 2035, you’ve just purchased your forever home and want to fill it with cool cutting edge smart tech. However, you’re not safe, there is a danger looming over the horizon (or more like over the internet). More specifically, your home could be hit with DDoS attack, flooding your systems with requests […]
1. Introduction People are addicted to social medias, but why? I believe that everyone in this class has used one or at least one social media (like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook,…), but have you ever wondered why people usually get so attracted to these apps so much? Among that much information, people are constantly fed with […]
Introduction The use of technology in games and sports has seen numerous improvements. Over the past few years, there has been a significant improvement in the assistance offered to players through various technical means. A significant amount of statistical data is produced through match analysis, which is then used by coaching staff and player teams […]
Introduction: Some time or another, you’ve probably talked to a friend about a restaurant you really like, or about a game that you recently played, or even about your experiences with certain courses and professors. These casual chats that you have are the result of an increasingly popular marketing strategy marketers use to attract more […]
An invasive team sport is any sport where two opposing teams battle for space and score points within a given time frame. Soccer, hockey and basketball are just some examples of invasive sports. The similarity between these games allows data scientists to uncover patterns and develop analysis techniques that work for all of these […]
For the past two years, I’ve been using Linkedin to broaden my connections for my Youtube Channel Destino Profesional and stay up to date with the latest trends in tech and entrepreneurship. By doing so, I managed to build a network of around 550 people. One year before finishing my degree and close to starting […]
Introduction and Motivation Online learning is still very prevalent in today’s world even after the pandemic has subsided. Lots of courses are still being delivered online, and even courses requiring you to attend in person will have some sort of online presence, including forums such as Quercus, Piazza, and Discord, for students to ask questions […]
Reddit’s r/Place is a subreddit and social experiment launched on April 1st, 2017. Five years later, it came back in 2022. Reddit’s initial vague instructions were as, “There is an empty canvas. You may place a tile upon it, but you must wait to place another. Individually you can create something. Together you can create […]
Motivation Have you ever gotten those pesky posts that pop up over and over again on Twitter that get you thinking, “How many people even look at this?”. Or maybe you’re sharing a cute puppy photo you took and wondering “How can I get more people to see my posts?” Well, you’re not alone. Analyzing […]
Anime is the term used for animated shows originating from Japan. It’s essentially just a specific medium of TV shows. Anime has been rising extremely quickly in popularity during the past few years, slowly becoming mainstream. I was curious to see what the driving few Animes that got it this far were. I stumbled upon […]
Motivation The diversity of the field of computer science has always interested me and how it can bleed into so many other fields. Social and Information Networks have many different utilities outside its own field, such as machine learning. This led me down a rabbit hole looking up the overlap of these two fields until […]
Introduction Out of the many categories of fraud, financial fraud is one which can have many lasting impacts. When financial fraud occurs, it can reduce trust in a company, which in turn would pose a threat to the company’s long-term investments among other effects. This is why financial fraud detection is of the utmost importance, […]
Introduction Almost all software created today has dependencies, meaning that the software created relies on other already developed software. To manage all these software dependencies many popular programming languages have package managers. Javascript has NPM, Python has PIP, Ruby has Gems, and the list goes on and on. This blog post goes over how graph […]
People are making decisions all the time and in most cases, they want to make the “correct” decision that can maximize the benefit. However, the benefits of the choices are usually uncertain and no one will predict what exactly will happen in the future. Here is an example. Suppose you are catching a flight. Whether […]
What is cancel culture? It is the phenomenon of celebrities, companies or shows being boycotted or ostracized due to offensive comments or beliefs. This often results in the guilty party losing many of their followers and in significant financial loss. Why is this a part of a modern day society and what factors are […]
The friendship paradox is the phenomenon that entails your friends having on average more friends than you do! From a high-level perspective, one reason behind this is because people that who have many friendships will be disproportionately apparent in multiple sets of friends, whereas the friends these popular people will be dwarfed by the friend […]
Introduction Technology has continued to impact us in every aspect of our lives and with its latest developments, it is no surprise that multi-billion dollar sporting industries have begun to feel these affects. Basketball, in particular, is a high intensity sport where even gaining a distance of a few yards from your opponent can result […]
Motivation In class, we had the opportunity to see the interdisciplinary applications of network science and how they can help us to better understand data and their relationships from fields of medicine and finance, to social networks. In addition to these disciplines, the application of network science is extremely prevalent in marketing research. More specifically, […]
Introduction You have probably gotten a call that looks like any regular number but when you answer it’s a call from the revenue agency looking for you. Spam calls have been a prevelent issue for a long time and they have only gotten sneakier as the time goes. They have even leaked into the internet […]
Introduction Once a company gains a consumer, the goal is to retain that consumer and maximize the company’s revenue. Thus, it becomes important for the company to build a good consumer-company identification (CCI) (deep relations between the company and the consumer). The question remains, should a company participate in Corporate Social Advocacy (CSA), where companies […]
The traveler’s dilemma, discovered by Kaushik Basu in 1994, is certainly one of my favorite of the game theory strategies that exist up to this date. Why you may ask? Well, let us first describe the game for those who are not aware of it. THE GAME The traveler’s dilemma involves two players who would […]
Today, malware appears in large numbers in online social networks and causes all kinds of damage. Typically, social networking services consist of connections between different user systems. As a result, malware can easily be transferred between systems of different users. Therefore, malware detection has become a popular topic in social network analysis. Jia et al. […]
Introduction Tokyo is known for the most efficient railway system in the world, carrying over 7 million passengers everyday. The city spent millions of dollars and several years to design a highly reliable railway system. At such a cost, one would expect the system to be well-structured, but Tokyo did not live up to […]