graph-theory on S Anand

Visualising networks

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:52:43 +0000

Some slides from my talks on visualising networks. (These are part of a series of talks I’m giving at a number of forums; the one at The Fifth Elephant is open to public.)

Social Network Analysis

Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:00:00 +0000

Excellent intro to social network analysis

Complex networks literature overview

Tue, 08 Apr 2003 12:00:00 +0000

A good (but technical) overview of complex networks literature (PDF). If you do pick it up, just glance through “III. Properties of networks”. It gives a good sense of what little we know of real-world networks.

The Internet is a scale free network

Sat, 05 Oct 2002 12:00:00 +0000

The Internet is a scale free network.

Bacon Number

Sun, 01 Jul 2001 12:00:00 +0000

The University of Virginia computes the Bacon Number for any actor, similar to the Erdos number in mathematics. We trace the acting links of Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, and even Prabhu Deva to Kevin Bacon. (BCG did the same for consultants who have worked together, and it turns out that I have a Bruce Henderson number of 3.)