Tuesday, July 15, 2014

The Viking Facebook


An unusual article recently appeared in the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and American Statistical Association.


It featured web-like diagrams of lines connecting nodes, a hallmark of research that analyzes networks. But each node, rather than being a plain dot, was the head of a burly, red-bearded Viking sporting a horned hat, his tresses blowing in the wind.


This whimsical-seeming piece of scholarship went on to describe the social network of more than 1,500 characters in the...


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