Week 9: Scale-Free Networks and the Friendship Paradox
Dad Joke
Why did the raisin go out with the prune?
Because he couldn’t find a date.
Housekeeping
- Thursday - 6 Degrees of Wikipedia
- Final Project Ideas due (yesterday)
- Self Assessment, Lab 6, and Social Search all due after Spring Break
- 6 degrees of Wikipedia on Thursday
Troubled Lands Reflection
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Troubled Lands Reflection
- What did you think about while playing?
- How did you feel as you played? Did those feeling change across different versions of the game?
- When do you help others in real life?
Troubled Lands Reflection
- Were resources and abilities distributed fairly?
- How should resources be distributed in the real world?
- What role did communication play? How did your group make decisions?
- Did you work to make things equal? Why or why not?
- What kinds of inequality appeared in the game?
Troubled Lands Reflection
- Did anyone sanction someone else? Why?
Review Questions
- What is a degree distribution?
Review Questions
- What is a scale-free distribution?
- When/where do we find scale-free distributions?
- What is an example of a network that would not have a scale-free distribution?
- What are the benefits of scale-free networks?
Review Questions
- What is the “friendship paradox”?
- How is the friendship paradox useful?
Friendship Paradox Example
Discussion Questions
- What are the limits of scale-free networks?
- Should we try to limit them more?
