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The friendship paradox in real and model networks
George T. Cantwell, Alec Kirkley, M. E. J. Newman
The friendship paradox is the observation that the degrees of the neighbors of a node in any network will, on average, be greater than the degree of the node itself. In common parl…
Online geolocalized emotion across US cities during the COVID crisis: Universality, policy response, and connection with local mobility
Shihui Feng, Alec Kirkley
As the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep across the US it elicited a wide spectrum of responses, both online and offline, across the population. To aid the development of effective…
Information theoretic network approach to socioeconomic correlations
Alec Kirkley
Due to its wide reaching implications for everything from identifying hotspots of income inequality to political redistricting, there is a rich body of literature across the scienc…
Belief propagation for networks with loops
Alec Kirkley, George T. Cantwell, M. E. J. Newman
Belief propagation is a widely used message passing method for the solution of probabilistic models on networks such as epidemic models, spin models, and Bayesian graphical models,…
Impact of urban structure on infectious disease spreading
Javier Aguilar, Aleix Bassolas, Gourab Ghoshal +8
The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has been holding the world hostage for more than a year now. Mobility is key to viral spreading and its restriction is the main non-pharmaceutical i…
Mixing Patterns in Interdisciplinary Collaboration Networks: Assessing Interdisciplinarity Through Multiple Lenses
Shihui Feng, Alec Kirkley
There are inherent challenges to interdisciplinary research collaboration, such as bridging cognitive gaps and balancing transaction costs with collaborative benefits. This raises…