{"id":216,"date":"2011-01-02T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.dds.nl\/?p=216"},"modified":"2011-01-02T22:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T06:07:00","slug":"assorted-links-from-the-2010-winter-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/assorted-links-from-the-2010-winter-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Assorted links from the 2010 winter break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some stuff that I encountered in the past weeks. Somehow, it&#8217;s all networks-related.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.1086\/653658\" target=\"_blank\">In the latest issue of AJS<\/a>,\u00a0 Andreas Wimmer and Kevin Lewis use the &#8216;Tastes, Times, Time&#8217; Facebook data and \u00a0 ERG-models to disentangle the various network formation mechanisms that generate aggregate racial homophily.<\/li>\n<li> While the above article is based on a very specific subset of the Facebook network, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CBMQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.minasgjoka.com%2Fpapers%2Funbiasedsampling-infocom2010.pdf&amp;rct=j&amp;q=walking%20in%20facebook&amp;ei=vGAhTZqpEoj6sAOQ7KC4Cg&amp;usg=AFQjCNF4urVG-7A6d9We-Iv8Z0UUGLOnTw&amp;sig2=syuV51yWldMf0ols7vmLlg&amp;kb=1&amp;cad=rja\" target=\"_blank\">a recent working paper<\/a> by Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Carter Butts, and Athina Markopoulou evaluate sampling methods to makes inferences about the <em>entire<\/em> Facebook network. Interestingly, they managed to obtain a uniform sample of nodes to use as a benchmark. Not only do they come up with a sampling method that produces unbiased results, but almost as an afterthought, also produce some descriptives of the Facebook network. Among other things, they show that the degree distribution of this network does not follow a power law. In my opinion, these results alone would be enough for a publication in a major journal.<\/li>\n<li>The open-access game theory journal <em>Games<\/em> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2073-4336\/1\/4\/422\/\" target=\"_blank\">special issue on &#8216;Social Networks and Network Formation,&#8217;<\/a> including\u00a0 pieces on public goods, coordination, and learning in networks, among other interesting stuff.<\/li>\n<li>James Rauch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles.php?doi=10.1257\/jel.48.4.980\" target=\"_blank\">reviews<\/a> Matthew Jackson&#8217;s &#8216;Social and Economic Networks&#8217;\u00a0 in the latest issue of JEL, and is, perhaps surprisingly, rather skeptic about network theory as presented by Jackson. Quite refreshing, even if I do not subscribe to his critique.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some stuff that I encountered in the past weeks. Somehow, it&#8217;s all networks-related. In the latest issue of AJS,\u00a0 Andreas Wimmer and Kevin Lewis use the &#8216;Tastes, Times, Time&#8217; Facebook data and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}