Arising from a desire to understand the likelihood of a family name becoming extinct, branching processes have a rich history and have been shown to be applicable to a wide range of domains. The simplest description of these processes is the case …
In this talk we discuss the level of localization present within the Laplacian matrix of a large collection of empirical networks and demonstrate how it is related to the spectral properties of these network's adjacency.
In this talk we consider what makes a successful Fantasy Premier League manager through a combination of data science, networks, and statistical analysis.
We'll run through some of the advantages of webscrpaing ones own data alongside some examples using the R language to scrape from a variety of data sources.
Fantasy Premier League (https://fantasy.premierleague.com) is one of the worlds most popular online fantasy sports games with ~7 million players. During the 2018-19 season we undertook a large data scraping exercise to obtain data describing the …
A model for the spreading of online information on multiplex networks is introduced and analyzed using branching-process methods. We demonstrate that the dynamical system is, in the limit of low innovation, poised near a critical point, which is …