November 15, 2013 by

Mathematica 9

I haven’t really played with Mathematica in years. (“Worked” would have been even more of a misnomer for what I have been doing.) Back in my college and grad school days, Mathematica was the go-to software for help with complicated mathematical calculations. However, as my work in Physics became increasingly more theoretical and abstract, the actual numerical calculations and even symbolic manipulations had taken the back seat. (As someone once described work in abstract mathematics: the only numbers you see are indices of indices.) So what really got me interested in Mathematica after all these years is my discovery of the social media functionsBojan Facebook Social Media Graph in Mathematica 9. I spend a lot of time on social media, and a geek that I am I was really interested in finding out more about the nature of my online social networks. I’ve only been able to scratch the surface so far, but I am already excited with what I had found. To the left is the image of my Facebook friends graph. There are certain features of it that I can only guess the meaning of, but I hope to be able to explore further once I get to fully understand the meaning of various variables and data points. Or, to use that dreadful phrase: more research is needed.

 

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Bojan Tunguz

Bojan Tunguz was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he and his family fled during the civil war for the neighboring Croatia. Over the past two decades he has studied, lived and worked in the United States. He is a theoretical physicist with degrees from Stanford and University of Illinois. Tunguz has taught physics at several prominent liberal arts colleges and has been writing about physics, science and technology for more than a decade. He also has a wide spectrum of interests, and reads and writes about current events, society, culture, religion and politics. Over the years he has reviewed many of the books that he has read, and posted his reviews on various online outlets. In 2011 he had become a top 10 reviewer on Amazon.com, where he continues to be very active. Aside from reading and writing, Tunguz enjoys traveling, digital photography, hiking, and fitness. He resides with his wife in Indiana. You can follow my review updates on the following pages as well: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tunguzreview Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tunguzreviews Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104312842297641697463/posts

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