Category Archives: Social Science


  • 80/20

    What’s the 80/20 rule? Looking at the income distribution, we can find the existence of power law distribution. We all [...]


  • hubs

    The idea of hub exists not only in the social network; moreover, it can be considered in an online space. [...]


  • ordered/random network.

    From the reading of Barabasi, the goal of graph theory can be considered as an aim to discover and catalogue [...]


  • Paul / MafiaBoy / Ants

    Network connects different diverse maps together by following a common blueprint. “A string of recent breath-taking discoveries has forced us [...]


  • clusters & small world

    from small world network from the Santa Fe Institute Bulletin, Volume 14, Number 2 (Fall 1999).


  • more thoughts on hubs and connectors.

    I found this article called Cyberspace, Cybertexts, Cybermaps” by marie-Laure Ryan throught the Patrik’s Sprawl (which is an amazing blog [...]


  • rich-get-richer & fit-get-richer

    The concept of rich-get-richer is an application of the preferential attachment. In a sense, it’s the seniority of the first-comers. [...]


  • spread innovation

    When we think about the spreading of virus, we have to think about AIDS. It is a failure of classical [...]


  • cascading failure

    Because of the nature of our interconnectivity in a complex network, if one of us fails all of us fails. [...]


  • Fibonacci Series revisited.

    Even after reading and creating a whole project relating to Fibonacci series, I never really got the real essence of [...]


  • more on network mapping

    I am thinking that it must be a bad weekend for servers or there is a huge attack on internet [...]


  • topological robustness

    Complex network is vulnerable because it’s strong interconnectivity. It might be one of the biggest characteristic and one of its [...]


  • access the power of media

    Chomsky proposed that there are two kinds of people. One where they shapes our society and one where they do [...]


  • open source media

    If we have to talk about open source media, we would definitely have to look at pegasusnews
    Pegasus News is a [...]


  • powerlaw

    While most of the systems in nature follows a bell curve, which is a distribution of that’s similar to the [...]