The Open Science movement champions transparency, but how much and how quickly is a matter of dispute

Over the past two years, my scientific computing toolbox been steadily homogenizing. Around 2010 or 2011, my toolbox looked something like this: Ruby for text processing and miscellaneous scripting…

Teaching page of Shervine Amidi, Graduate Student at Stanford University.

Studying the structure of existing friendships in your community can help you forge the best connections when forming a new circle of friends.

The other day, four Québécois gentlemen put out an arxiv preprint about one of my favorite topics*—algorithms for network epidemiology. In this blog post, I will try to convince you to: (1) Read th…

Companion website for KDD’18 Hands-On Tutorial on Higher-Order Data Analytics for Temporal Network Data

Quanta’s In Theory video series returns with an exploration of a mysterious mathematical pattern found throughout nature.

<p>How a hidden coding error fueled a seven-year dispute between two of condensed matter’s top theorists.</p>

Using a simple set of mathematical rules, a very intricate geometry can be created in the form of fractals. The Sierpinski triangle is a famous example. Subs...