Lookie here for the map and its description.
The link will take you to a “map of science” made by Kevin Boyack and Dick Klavens in 2006 and later published in several notable science magazines.  800,000 scientific papers (white dots) were organized into 776 scientific paradigms (red circles), with edges drawn between paradigms that share papers, […]

http://tiee.ecoed.net/vol/v2/issues/frontier_sets/rich/pdf/Frontiers-Stohlgren(etal)-Overview.pdf
Prominent biologists such as Charles Darwin and Charles Elton have traditionally believed that it is easiest for new plant species to grow in areas that are not species-rich because there is less competition for vital resources in such areas. This seems to be quite a reasonable assertion but recent experiments and statistical research from the […]

A post written a week ago about the popularity of Flickr users features effects of free versus pro accounts and the “Flickr Star System.” Now to further stimulate interest on Flickr, we can discuss a model of Flickr’s social cascades, proposed by Meeyoung Cha, Alan Mislove, Ben Adams and Krishna P. Gummadi […]

Network effects are commonly used to describe the effect of a good on the user as the number of users who purchased the good increases. The story of network effects is mainly told by giving the example of a fax machine. The first person to purchase the fax machine had no one to fax to, […]

In class this semester, it goes without saying that we have dealt with a lot of networks and graphs.  However, the models for graphs that we have used in class represent relatively simple models that, while they serve our purposes well, are only the tip of the iceberg in the advanced topic of Graph Theory.
Network […]

The necessity of information to modern society has never been so evident as it is today. Businesses and individuals alike rely on the ability to share and access data from sources all over the world, and as demand for information grows, so too does the amount of information shared. The incredible power and promise of […]

http://www.tnj.com/node/1486
The above article from The Network Journal talks about analyzing what a free customer is worth to a business and emphasizes the importance of analyzing this when developing pricing and marketing schemes. The major idea behind it is that in many businesses customers who pay little or nothing are an integral part of acquiring […]

Link: http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/how-the-low-fat-low-fact-cascade-just-keeps-rolling-along/
In “How the Low-Fat, Low-Fact Cascade Just Keeps Rolling Along”, New York Times science columnist John Tierney discusses the effects of informational cascades in the scientific world. Tierney describes a general definition of information cascades and illustrates examples such as the belief in low fat diets prolonging life and “the crusade […]

We have seen how search engines like Google use the PageRank algorithm to provide a ranked list of relevant sites in response to a user’s query.  This algorithm takes advantage of the already existing network structure of the web, which consists of all of its pages, the nodes, connected by hyperlinks, the edges.  This article […]

Article Link: http://www.jgore.org/research.html

Evolution, through survival of the “fittest”, is commonly thought of as a very harsh process that results in zero-sum outcomes - one organism thrives at the expense of another. It is also commonly thought that after billions of years of evolution, current organisms are highly efficient at survival.

The observation of cooperation among organisms […]