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1/21/2014 CSCI 3350: Social & Economic Networks Lecture 1: Introduction Mohammad T . Irfan Email: mirfan@bowdoin.edu Office Hours: Tu & Th 3 5pm 1/21/14 Syllabus Course website

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CSCI 3350: Social & Economic Networks

Mohammad T . Irfan Email: mirfan@bowdoin.edu Office Hours: Tu & Th 3—5pm 1/21/14 Lecture 1: Introduction

Syllabus

 Course website

 http://www.bowdoin.edu/~mirfan/CSCI-3350.html

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Cascades

Technology adoption (today’s news)

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Arab Spring (2010 – present) Northeast blackout (2003)

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Hush puppies (1995) Baltimore STD outbreak (1995)

 1995 to 1996: 500% increase  Concentration in the east and the west

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Viral videos/Facebook posts

Small World

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6-degrees of separation

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLIyuYw

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6-degrees of separation

 Milgram’s experiment (1960s)

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The Internet

Algorithms & economics of search

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Strategic decision- making in Networks

Game theory

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Markets

High-level questions

http://www.bowdoin.edu/~mirfan/CSCI-3350.html

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Graphs

Photo: TouchGraph App

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Graphs

Terminology