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Information Transmission in a Social Network: Dissecting the Spread of a Quora Post

Edwin Chen

tl;dr See this movie visualization for a case study on how a post propagates through Quora. Much of Quora’s appeal, after all, lies in its social graph – and when you’ve got a network of users, all broadcasting their activities to their neighbors, information can cascade in multiple ways. Social Voting Dynamics.

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Misleading Statistics Examples – Discover The Potential For Misuse of Statistics & Data In The Digital Age

datapine

With the COVID-19 pandemic, the general public was forced to consume scientific information in the form of data visualizations to stay informed about the current developments of the virus. Here they speak about two use-cases in which COVID-19 data was used in a misleading way. 3) Data fishing. But this didn’t come easy.