TED Talk discusses Wikipedia and the culture of collaboration

2015-07-20Posted inBlog, Networks in the News

tedIn the TED Talk “Why We Collaborateâ€� Guy Raz talks to a series of people who have given TED Talks on the mysteries behind mass collaboration. Guest, Jimmy Wales, one of the creators of Wikipedia talks about how Wikipedia has become one of the most popular sites getting about 19 billions page views a month but could not have been what it is today without the help and collaboration of 80,000 volunteers all around the world.… Read the rest

The New Laws of Explosive Networks

2015-07-15Posted inBlog, Networks in the News

Although network connectivity has always been thought of in a slow and constant manner, researchers have discovered that in special cases, connectivity begins with a bang (and ends with one too) in a phenomenon called “explosive percolation.â€� It stems from networks being so interconnected that a chain reaction develops, and has serious consequences.… Read the rest

New sign-in from Chrome on Windows

2015-06-18Posted inBlog, Networks in the News
New sign-in from Chrome on WindowsHi SonicNU,Your Google Account sonicnorthwestern@gmail.com was just used to sign in from Chrome on Windows. SonicNU sonicnorthwestern@gmail.comWindows Thursday, June 18, 2015 12:26 PM (Central Daylight Time) Evanston, IL, USA* Chrome*Don’t recognize this activity?* Review your recently used devices now. Why are we sending this? We […]

meghandmccarter@gmail.com would like to view your calendar

2015-06-17Posted inBlog, Networks in the News
I’ve been using Google Calendar to organize my schedule, find interesting events, and share my schedule with friends and family members. I’d like to be able to view your calendar to make scheduling things together even easier. meghandmccarter@gmail.com would like to view your calendar. To accept this request, please visit: […]

What we’re reading – and how it ties us together

2015-05-18Posted inBlog, journals, Networks in the News, social network analysis, visualization

Michael Levy of the Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior at UC Davis created a bipartite network of using his coworkers and their preferred journals to illustrate the functional clusters within the highly interdisciplinary lab. He then converted the visualization into a single mode network using ggnet - a ggplot implementation (via the GGally package) and calculated degree, betweenness, and eigenvector centrality for each journal for a more detailed picture of the overlapping interests within his community. He provides his r code for anyone who wants to apply try the excersize with their own lab.… Read the rest

Female peers in small work groups enhance women’s motivation, verbal participation, and career aspirations in engineering

2015-04-10Posted inBlog, Networks in the News
In a new piece in PNAS, Dasgupta,Scircle & Hunsinger demonstrate the importance of team gender composition. They show that females have greater participation, self-confidence, and career aspirations when they are assigned to teams with more females. Abstract: For years, public discourse in science education, technology, and policy-making has focused on […]