Practice English Speaking&Listening with: Welcome - Intro to Algorithms

Social networks have been around as long as

there’ve been people forming communities but the

modern study of social networks is different because

it’s now possible to put together social networks that

include data on millions of people. Now that’s more

than any one individual could possibly hope to

understand in detail. Unit four explores the notion of

statistics, numbers that summarize complex

structures like social networks. We’re going to take a

look at how we can compute statistics quickly, so we

can get a handle on the biggest social networks

around. Here we go.