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Week 8: Small worlds

Content for the week of Monday, March 3, 2025

Tuesday

Assignment Due (Wednesday):

• R Lab 5 - Aesthetics in ggraph
• Reading Review Assignments
  • Discussion Questions

Readings:

• The Science of Six Degrees of Separation [video][9:22]
• Travers, J. and Milgram, S. (1969). An experimental study of the small world problem. Sociometry, 32(4):425-443
  • Claude.ai summary
• (Optional but short) Dodds, P. S., Muhamad, R., & Watts, D. J. (2003). An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks. Science, 301(5634), 827.

Lecture Video:

[18:45]

• Slides

Discussion Questions

Thursday

• Troubled Lands Activity