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Groups members

Sarita Yardi
Lada Adamic
Moira Burke
Turadg Aleahmad


We're all Twitter users and we've noticed that spam is becoming a bigger and bigger problem on Twitter. We've observed certain patterns of behavior on Twitter--spambots follow trending hashtags as they become popular, and spam accounts appear to be distributed throughout the network so that they c… Continue

Group members
George Rouskas
Ed Gehringer
Richard Lucic
Dan Katz

Goals
Practice with file I/O
Experience screenscraping (Billboard Top 100?)
Teach simple data structures (e.g., array lists).
Teach sorting
Teach module interfaces
Understand how networks can be built from similarities

Components of the assignment
Read in playlists in the format used by iTunes and put them into an array list, in CSV format.
Simultaneously, create a list of artists represented, with frequenc… Continue

Group 2 members: Jim Caristi and Maria Droujkova

Primary question (research level)
What are some math social objects in the networks you use, and how do they "bridge" to math networks (theories/models/simulations)
Secondary questions:
- Find a network element (people and connections) related to a particular social object (quilt pattern, recipe, fanfic)
- Identify a bridge from a network social object to a math/CS object (e.g. a piece of theory, a definition, a concept, a piece of code, a simula… Continue

In this module the student will:

Develop skills necessary to retrieve data from web pages and other data bases.
Screen Scraping

Python tutorial:

Become familiar with the visualization tool igraph

Analysis of the network/graph… Continue

Cooking

Mathematical artifacts:
proportion
timelines
conversions
size: area, volume, weight, density -- containers
optimization
combinatorics (how many pairings)
economy of food
biochemistry of cooking

Measurement versus proportion in recipe style

Menu preparation: include appetizer, salad/soup, entree, vegetable, starch, dessert that are associated "appropriately"

Recipe generation:
- random based on networks of food pairings;
- perturbations of known recipes
-- spice
-- salt
-- fats
-- die… Continue