#k-core

What is K-Core?  In the hands of DJ HWXXNG (Jaeho Hwang), K-Core deconstructs traditional Korean music and refits it for the modern era.   The visual element is important as well, a way to demonstrate that the past has a way of haunting the present, while the present continues to reevaluate the past. Consider for example the bonkers teaser videos for Shift Key and “2045 Apocalypse.”  “Shift Key”…

Ecological Network Analysis Workshop

We are most fortunate that Dr Giovanni Strona of the EU Joint Research Centrein Ispra, Italy, will be visiting Flinders University for most of April. As a recipient of the prestigious International Visitor Fellowship, Dr Strona has kindly agreed to give a day-long (and hands-on) workshop in network modelling.

What is network analysis? Well, anything that is connected to other things is ostensibly…

This chart represents the potential "unraveling" of a community if people with a given number of connections to the community find it no longer valuable and leave.

In the case of the Ignite Boulder community the entire community is predicted to degenerate if everyone with fewer than 75 connections to the community leave. This number means that Ignite Boulder is an amazingly resilient community.

In the article posted below about the death of Friendster, the critical tipping point seems to be when a majority of the network had fewer than 3 connections.