Editing Small World Networks 2008 (section)

=== Week 13 ===

Wenrui(Linda)

Last week, I have watched the movie "number" that Matthew gave to us. Volume one is talking about to find the central node of a network system, it's pretty relevant to our project. hopefully we can also work out some big events later by applying our  discover during the project.

Also I will ask sweet to get the copy of "Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis" for me to read through.

One more question, for the enron data set, Matthew, you have already gave us the code, but it's in Python which i have never use before, should i rewrite it in java again?


Zhujian(Sweet)

This week, I was thinking a problem, the following is what I thought

The relationship is very important of society, especially in China. And I find the weak relationship always to be the keypiont to spread my own social network. For example, if I want to find a job, that is hard to have some helps from my best friends, because we always have the similar social networks. But the acquaintances in my network may give me more chances to get a job, because they may have different social relationships from mine. In engineering aspect, we always want to improve the weak link(eg:target link) to be stronger. In contrast, we always ignore these weak relationships in real social network, but sometimes these weak ones seem to be the keypoint to spread our relation nets. Should we need to improve these ones to be stronger like in the engineering aspects or just keep these weak?

Making social network links stronger requires time and energy. You have to look at the benefits to improving links to those people. Perhaps in terms of finding a job, you can just keep a weak link to them. A key difference between social networks and engineering networks is that in a social network you only have one link to another person. In networks like power networks and communications networks, you can usually add in multiple links between two nodes, and get an improvement in robustness. So it's a different kind of strength. --[[User:Mattjb|Mattjb]] 11:39, 16 June 2008 (CST)