🔖 Multichannel social signatures and persistent features of ego networks

Sara Heydari, Sam G. Roberts, Robin I. M. Dunbar, and Jari Saramäki

🔗 https://rdcu.be/QmwK

📌 ABSTRACT
The structure of egocentric networks reflects the way people balance their need for strong, emotionally intense relationships and a diversity of weaker ties. Egocentric network structure can be quantified with ’social signatures’, which describe how people distribute their communication effort across the members (alters) of their personal networks. Social signatures based on call data have indicated that people mostly communicate with a few close alters; they also have persistent, distinct signatures. To examine if these results hold for other channels of communication, here we compare social signatures built from call and text message data, and develop a way of constructing mixed social signatures using both channels. We observe that all types of signatures display persistent individual differences that remain stable despite the turnover in individual alters. We also show that call, text, and mixed signatures resemble one another both at the population level and at the level of individuals. The consistency of social signatures across individuals for different channels of communication is surprising because the choice of channel appears to be alter-specific with no clear overall pattern, and ego networks constructed from calls and texts overlap only partially in terms of alters. These results demonstrate individuals vary in how they allocate their communication effort across their personal networks and this variation is persistent over time and across different channels of communication.

#Social_signatures, #Social_networks, #Egocentric_networks, #Mobile_phones

🍄 https://comdig.unam.mx/2018/06/01/the-biology-of-consciousness-from-the-bottom-up/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

powerlaw:

A Python Package for Analysis of Heavy-Tailed Distributions
https://pypi.org/project/powerlaw/

🔹 Computational Methods in Physics
Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2017

Lecture Notes are available in Farsi. Here is the list of released ones:

http://sharifcompphys.ir/course-materials/lecture-notes/

Introduction
Fractals
Surface Growth
Percolation
Random Walk
Random Number Generation
Integrating
The Metropolis Algorithm
Canonical Ensemble
Ising Model

🔹 http://ncase.me/crowds/

🔹 https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/06/04/relative-error-clt/

🔹 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0081-4

به کسانی که قصد انتخاب گرایش سیستم‌های پیچیده در دانشگاه شهید بهشتی رو دارن، پیشنهاد می‌شه این سه نوشته رو بخونند:
🔹 http://facultymembers.sbu.ac.ir/jafari/Complex%20systems/Complex-persian.htm

🔸 http://www.sitpor.org/2017/01/complexsys1/

◽ http://www.sitpor.org/2018/05/complex-systems-basics/

🐛 بعد از کرم الگانس، شبکه سیستم عصبی موجود دیگری هم به دست اومده که اتفاقا اون هم جهان‌کوچک هست:

https://elifesciences.org/articles/22497

A second nervous system has now been fully mapped (along with C. elegans) and it too is a small world. All hail the tadpole larva of a sea squirt, and its marvelously tiny connectome of 177 neurons.
https://t.co/kO3tlEVq5x

The report from the NSF Workshop “Multidisciplinary Complex Systems Research” is now available: https://t.co/LC1Df27GyE
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The report from the NSF Workshop “Multidisciplinary Complex Systems Research”

🔹 https://www.edx.org/course/data-analysis-for-social-scientists

🔹 مقدمه‌ای بر تحلیل داده تپولوژیک:
https://dsweb.siam.org/The-Magazine/Article/topological-data-analysis-1