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Using Mathematics to Untangle Facebook, Decode Congress
May 13, 2010
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Networks permeate modern life, from Facebook to political allegiances. Now University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have developed a new technique for examining networks to help identify patterns of community structures and see how connections evolve. A paper describing their research appears in the May 14, 2010 edition of the journal Science.
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