How can we understand a city through its infrastructure networks? This question was the starting point for my final project in the Data Visualization class taught by Roberta Sinatra. The goal of the class was to gain insight into a data set through visualization.
The article of two of our faculty, János Kertész and János Török, on the once popular but now defunct Hungarian online social network, iWiW, has just been published in Scientific Reports.
We still don’t know much about the ways personality traits and ego-networks shape each other, though having a deeper insight into the phenomena may have important implications both for the improvement of therapeutic methods and for organizational purposes.
On November 13, the speaker at the CNS Research Colloquium was Tamer Khraisha, who gave a talk on the topic of "Network Structure and the Exploration and Exploitation of Complex Technological Landscapes". Tamer is a third year PhD student at the Center for Network Science with particular interests in Innovation Networks, Diffusion of Financial Innovations and Economic Networks.
On October 30, the guest speaker at the CNS Seminar Series was Balázs Lengyel, who gave a talk on "Labor Mobility, Social Networks and Economic Growth in Cities". Balázs is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he leads the Agglomeration and Social Networks Lendület Research Group.
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Why do some networks rapidly decay and collapse?
