Question

Michelle Girvan and Mark Newman authored a 2002 paper on community detection within these structures. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these structures consisting of social actors and the ties that connect them.
ANSWER: social networks
[10h] Girvan and Newman popularized this simple social network of 34 individuals, including the rival admins “John A” and “Mr. Hi.” It is a ubiquitous toy dataset for studies in network science.
ANSWER: Zachary’s karate club [prompt on martial arts club]
[10m] As the admins, nodes 1 and 34 in Zachary’s karate club have a high degree of this broad measure of a node’s structural importance. This property’s “betweenness” type counts the number of shortest paths traversing a node.
ANSWER: node centrality [accept betweenness centrality]
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Cornell AImperial A1001020
Yale BWUSTL A100010
Iowa State AChicago B100010
Chicago CMIT A1001020
Columbia BPurdue A100010
Florida ASouth Carolina A100010
Georgia Tech BNYU A0000
Johns Hopkins AVirginia A100010
Chicago AMinnesota A1001020
Ohio State ATexas A100010
Penn State AFlorida B0000
Harvard ARutgers A100010
Rutgers BWUSTL B100010
Vanderbilt AHouston A100010
Cornell BStanford A1010020
Georgia Tech AIllinois A1001020
Duke AMichigan A1001020
Indiana AToronto A100010
McGill AUC Berkeley B100010
Northwestern AClaremont A1001020