COMPLEXITY

Mason Porter on Community Detection and Data Topology

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Apr 5, 2023
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Mason Porter
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
The Complexity Podcast: A Conversation With Mason Porter
01:48 • 5min
3
The Career of a Postdoc at Caltech
07:05 • 2min
4
The Evolution of the SFI Network
08:42 • 2min
5
The Origins of Community Network Detection
10:24 • 4min
6
The Different Approaches to Community Detection
14:34 • 4min
7
Different Methodologies Disclose or Enact Different Ontologies
18:29 • 2min
8
The Modularity and Hierarchy of Networks
20:14 • 2min
9
The Importance of Community Detection
22:25 • 6min
10
The Social Structure of Facebook Networks
27:57 • 3min
11
How Domain Knowledge Can Help You Choose the Right University for You
30:46 • 5min
12
The Role of High School in the Social Organization of Large Universities
36:06 • 2min
13
The Role of Community Structure in the Growth of Networks
37:39 • 3min
14
The Impact of Homophily on Hostile Social Networks
40:20 • 5min
15
How to Generalize Matrices to a More Complicated Mathematical Object
45:03 • 3min
16
The Importance of Community Detection in Social Organization
47:39 • 5min
17
The Topology of Data
52:42 • 2min
18
How to Make Sense of a Point Cloud
54:27 • 5min
19
The Future of Large Language Models Is Going to Be Curated, Targeted Data Sets
59:08 • 3min
20
The Importance of Nuance in Science Communication
01:02:21 • 2min
21
The Topology of Data
01:04:05 • 3min
22
The Topological Lens for Street Networks
01:06:54 • 3min
23
How to Measure the Topological Summary of Fungal Data
01:09:33 • 2min
24
The Topological Structure of Spider Webs Feeled by Spiders Under the Influence of Psychotropic Substances
01:11:39 • 2min
25
The Evolution of Complex System Science
01:13:54 • 4min
26
How to Validate Opinion Models
01:17:40 • 5min