Web Science/Part2: Emerging Web Properties/How big is the World Wide Web/Summary, further reading, homework

Summary, further reading, homework

Learning goals

  1. understand why it is important to have web models. (e.g. for information retrieval, spam detection, understanding epidemic flow of information on the web)
  2. be aware that models are not the reality.
  3. even if a generative model yields same statistics and distributions as a predictive model it might fail badly

Video

Further reading

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Discussion