28/12/2017 Social Networks - - Unit 8 - Week4 - - Strong and Weak Relationships (Continued) & Homophily
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Week4 - - Strong and Weak Relationships (Continued) &
Homophily
Course
outline Week4-Assignment1
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Course Trailer
FAQ
1) Homophily refers to the friendship between people 1 point
Things to Note Who are similar to each other
Who are dissimilar to each other
Accessing the
Portal Who are introduced to each other because of a common friend
Who have different ethnicity but live at the same place
Week 1 -
Introduction
Week 2 - Accepted Answers:
Handling Real- Who are similar to each other
world Network
Datasets 2) Dynamics of friendships formation and behaviour of people in a network is 1 point
Week 3- Strength Impacted by neither - selection and social influence.
of Weak Ties Impacted by both, selection as well as social influence.
Impacted by selection but not social influence.
Week4 - - Strong
and Weak Impacted by social influence but not selection.
Relationships
(Continued) &
Homophily
Accepted Answers:
Impacted by both, selection as well as social influence.
3) In affiliation networks 1 point
Quiz : Week4-
There can be en edge between two people but there can not be an edge between two foci.
Assignment1 There can be an edge between two foci but there can be no edge between two people.
There can be edge between any two entities (be it people or foci).
There can no be edges between two people and there can not be edges between two foci.
Accepted Answers:
There can no be edges between two people and there can not be edges between two foci.
4) Affiliation networks are 1 point
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Lecture 38 - Tie Complete and bipartite
Strength, Social
Media and Bipartite and not complete
Passive Complete and not bipartite
Engagement
Neither complete nor bipartite
Accepted Answers:
Bipartite and not complete
5) In social-affiliation networks 1 point
There can be en edge between two people but there can not be an edge between two foci.
Lecture 39 -
Betweenness There can be an edge between two foci but there can be no edge between two people.
Measures and There can be edge between any two entities (be it people or foci).
Graph
Partitioning There can no be edges between two people and there can not be edges between two foci.
Accepted Answers:
There can be en edge between two people but there can not be an edge between two foci.
6) 1 point
Lecture 40 -
Strong and
Weak
Relationship -
Summary
Consider the Figures A,B and C and choose the right kind of closure they represent:
A: Triadic closure, B: Membership closure, C: Focal closure
A: Membership closure, B: Triadic closure, C: Focal closure
A: Focal closure, B: Triadic closure, C: Membership closure
A: Focal closure, B: Membership closure, C: Triadic closure
Lecture 41 -
Introduction to Accepted Answers:
Homophily - A: Focal closure, B: Membership closure, C: Triadic closure
Should you
watch your 7) Suppose Akash and Bhumi have 'k' common friends. Given that each common friend gives 1 point
company ? Akash and Bhumi an independent probability 'p' of forming a link, what is the probability that there will
exist a link between Akash and Bhumi.
p^k
1-(1-p)k
1-{(1-p)}^k
pk
Lecture 42 -
Selection and
Social Influence
Accepted Answers:
1-{(1-p)}^k
Lecture 43 -
Interplay
between
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Selection and 8) 1 point
Social Influence
Lecture 44 -
Homophily -
Definition and
measurement
Given an affiliation graph in Figure, showing the membership of people in different social foci,
researchers sometimes create a projected graph on just the people, in which they join two people when
they have a focus in common. When such a projected graph is created for the given Figure, what would
be the number of edges in it?
4
5
6
7
Lecture 45 -
Foci Closure
and
Membership
Closure Accepted Answers:
6
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Lecture 46 -
Introduction to
Fatman
Evolutionary
model
Lecture 47 -
Fatman
Evolutionary
Model- The
Base Code
(Adding people)
Lecture 48 -
Fatman
Evolutionary
Model- The
Base Code
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(Adding Social
Foci)
Lecture 49 -
Fatman
Evolutionary
Model-
Implementing
Homophily
Lecture 50 -
Quantifying the
Effect of Triadic
Closure
Lecture 51 -
Fatman
Evolutionary
Model-
Implementing
Closures
Lecture 52 -
Fatman
Evolutionary
Model-
Implementing
Social Influence
Lecture 53 -
Fatman
Evolutionary
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Model- Storing
and analyzing
longitudnal data
Feedback for
week 4
Solutions to
Week 4-
Assignment 1
Week 5 -
Homophily
Continued and
+Ve / -Ve
Relationships
Week 6- Link
Analysis
Week 7 -
Cascading
Behaviour in
Networks
Week 8 : Link
Analysis
(Continued)
Week -9 : Power
Laws and Rich-
Get-Richer
Phenomena
Week 10 - Power
law (contd..) and
Epidemics
Week 11- Small
World
Phenomenon
Week 12-
Pseudocore
(How to go viral
on web?)
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