Week 9: Scale-Free Networks and the Friendship Paradox
Dad Joke
Why did the raisin go out with the prune?
Because he couldn’t find a date.
Housekeeping
- Thursday - 6 Degrees of Wikipedia
Review Questions
- What is a degree distribution?
Review Questions
- What is a scale-free distribution?
- When/where do we find scale-free distributions?
- What is an example of a network that would not have a scale-free distribution?
- What are the benefits of scale-free networks?
Review Questions
- What is the “friendship paradox”?
- How is the friendship paradox useful?
Friendship Paradox Example
