Sunday, June 28, 2026 Strategy, technology, media, and social systems

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Sorin Adam Matei

Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.

Tag: analysis

The importance of trade-off thinking in studying communication technologies

Technologies such as the power grid, plumbing, or mass media rely on standards that are accepted as simply being there. Electric power is provided at 120V AC, pipe gauges are measured in fractional increments, typically expressed in inches, sitcoms are 30 min…

Is 2011 the worst tornado season ever? Historical tornado statistics suggest near record spike in a declining trend (KML, map, pictures)

The devastating series of tornadoes, of which the F-5 (maximum intensity) event that hit Joplin, Missouri left in its wake over 130 dead was the most terrifying, raise the question if tornadoes are becoming more destructive and if 2011 is a record-breaking…

Finding community structure in networks using the eigenvectors of matrices

Is this a way of getting at what has become the holly grail of community research, namely detecting structure in any given group? We consider the problem of detecting communities or modules in networks, groups of vertices with a higher-than-average density of…

CAIDA : tools

Tools,  software and a taxonomy of available research and visualization tools made available by The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis. Measurement Taxonomy AutoFocus Beluga cflowd CoralReef iffinder Mantra NeTraMet RTG scamper skitter . Anonymization Tools Topology Tools Workload Tools Performance Tools…

WikiXRay

Fabulous resource for analyzing Wikipedia data. See what they did with in this paper by Ortega on Wikipedia inequality of contribution.