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Mason Porter on Community Detection and Data Topology

COMPLEXITY

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Representing Social Interactions/Relationships as Edges in a Network Is A Poor Approximation of Reality

Interactions between people are much more complex than a simple mathematical representation. We can't accurately capture the nuances and multiple types of relationships in a matrix or network. When we study these mathematical objects, we must be cautious about the simplifications we make and the potential distortions that occur. Our goal is to derive meaningful insights about the real world from these mathematical representations, but we must remember that they are a simplified version of reality.

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