Simulation 106: Modeling Information Diffusion and Social Contagion with Networks

A graph-based approach to modeling the spread of information through social networks

Social media has completely revolutionized the information landscape. We are more connected to each other than we have every been in human history. News stories can reach us in an instant and ideas spread across the globe in days, but how does this work? How does information spread and can we model it? In this article, we will cover the theory behind…