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A Network-Based Measure of Cosponsorship Influence on Bill Passing in the United States House of Representatives
Sarah Sotoudeh, Mason A. Porter, Sanjukta Krishnagopal
Each year, the United States Congress considers thousands of legislative proposals to select bills to present to the US President to sign into law. Naturally, the decision processe…
Community-Size Biases in Statistical Inference of Communities in Temporal Networks
Theodore Y. Faust, Arash A. Amini, Mason A. Porter
In the study of time-dependent (i.e., temporal) networks, researchers often examine the evolution of communities, which are sets of densely connected sets of nodes that are connect…
Inference of Hierarchical Core-Periphery Structure in Temporal Networks
Theodore Y. Faust, Mason A. Porter
Networks can have various types of mesoscale structures. One type of mesoscale structure in networks is core-periphery structure, which consists of densely-connected core nodes and…
A Social Dynamical System for Twitter Analysis
Zhiping Xiao, Xinyu Wang, Yifang Qin +3
Understanding the evolution of public opinion is crucial for informed decision-making in various domains, particularly public affairs. The rapid growth of social networks, such as…
Dynamical importance and network perturbations
Ethan Young, Mason A. Porter
The leading eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of a graph exerts much influence on the behavior of dynamical processes on that graph. It is thus relevant to relate notions of…