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Mason Porter on Community Detection and Data Topology

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The Impact of Homophily on Hostile Social Networks

SFI: I've heard you say that a lot of the thinking on network structure tends to assume pairwise interactions in the model. But there are so many different pieces to this, and we know more about how to study them mathematically than ever before. We're representing something in a mathematical object that even when we include a bunch of these nuances, non-parwhites interactions and so on is a much simpler thing than reality. SFI: You have to worry because there are artifactual things that occur by choosing to have represented something in a certain way. The hope is that something that you then say about this object hopefully can tell you also something about the more complicated thing it's

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