Alexandra Marin

Use strong ties to get
a job through someone you know
who has influence

I never thought that
Structural analysis
Could be so much fun

The strength of weak ties
The best title in the history
of network science

The joy of structure
In works of Granovetter
Lin, Burt, and Bian

Structural holes
Empty spaces between us
use them while you can

The node, a lonely dot
Clustered in triads close
The strength of weak ties

Euler bond, two suitcases
Seven bridges in a puzzle
Graph theory is fun

Transitivity
Let us all come together
Cliques are exclusive

Oh structural holes
Ronald Burt, you rock my world
The Joy of Bridging

I choose those I like
Inbreeding homophily
those I choose, like me.

People stole bagels
From the generous baker
Believe we are mean!

Nodes are clustered tight
In cliques fragmented from each
Structure divided

Strife, Isolation
A solitary node undone
by networks so harsh

How to find out if
there is transitivity
Use Watts' math modeling

Rationality
Homo Economicus
Deterministic

Product Quality
Varies across strength of ties
Very important

Whole networks don’t have
The ego in the centre
We call the dots nodes

Dense ties tend to be
very close and special ties
good for survival

Nan Lin you make my
relations so much clearer:
From above, I see!

Non-redundant ties!
New information abounds
Homophily, no!