Posts Tagged ‘powerlaw’

Turns Out All Your Friends Have More Friends Than You

Thursday, June 9th, 2016

All Your Friends Have More Friends Than You
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/05/turns-out-all-your-friends-have-more-friends-than-you.html Twist on social #networks having a #powerlaw degree distribution
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The paradox arises because numbers of friends people have are distributed in a way that follows a power law rather than an ordinary linear relationship. So most people have a few friends while a small number of people have lots of friends.
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Rich-Get-Richer Effect Observed in BitCoin Digital Currency Network | MIT Technology Review

Monday, November 4th, 2013

Interesting data set to analyze

Rich Get Richer Effect Observed in #BitCoin: #econophysicists analyzing entire transaction corpus find a #powerlaw
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/518541/rich-get-richer-effect-observed-in-bitcoin-digital-currency-network