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Graphs in the world: Modeling systems as networks
- rodionos 11y agoHaving a hard time classifying to which science this research belongs. On one hand it deals with graphs so it must be math. On the other hand, you have people, interpersonal relations with all the baggage of ambiguities - so is this sociology?
- the_cat_kittles 11y agoi never understand these kind of questions. why do you need to general taxonomy once you know the specifics?
- Jtsummers 11y agoInterdisciplinary. It's an application of mathematics to other fields. Which may, in turn, feed back into mathematics as new concepts and structures are revealed.
- rjurney 11y agoAuthor here. I'd say this all falls under SNA (Social Network Analysis). From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis: Social network analysis (SNA) is the process of investigating social structures through the use of network and graph theories.
- nl 11y agoI see this is the perfect example of the cross disciplinary nature of data science. I do graph work, and I find myself regularly reading papers in math, epidemiology, computational social science and natural language processing. Often the problems are almost exactly the same, and approaches are very similar.
- ivan_ah 11y agoInteresting, but I think printed books are much better for learning, e.g. http://noBSgui.de/to/MATHandPHYSICS/ http://noBSgui.de/to/MATHandPHYSICS/ (disclaimer: I am the author)