{"id":1922,"date":"2018-06-28T09:55:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T09:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2018-06-28T09:58:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T09:58:32","slug":"the-small-world-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2018\/06\/28\/the-small-world-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Small-world Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2018\/06\/28\/the-small-world-effect\/&amp;t=The Small-world Effect' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=The Small-world Effect%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2018\/06\/28\/the-small-world-effect\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2018\/06\/28\/the-small-world-effect\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2018\/06\/28\/the-small-world-effect\/&amp;title=The Small-world Effect' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2018\/06\/28\/the-small-world-effect\/&amp;title=The Small-world Effect' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Last month I gave an impromptu whiteboard tutorial on the Small-world effect as part of the Kent <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/theoryandsimulation\/theory-discussion-group\/\">Theory Discussion Group<\/a>. Here are the two main references I covered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watts, D. J. &amp; Strogatz, S. H., &#8220;Collective dynamics of &#8216;small-world&#8217;networks&#8221;, <em>Nature<\/em> <strong>393<\/strong>, 440\u2013442 (1998). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/30918\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/30918<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Newman, M.E.J. &amp; Watts,\u00a0D.J. ,&#8221;Renormalization group analysis of the small-world network model&#8221;, <em>Physics Letters A<\/em>, <strong>263<\/strong>, 341-346 (1999). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0375-9601(99)00757-4\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0375-9601(99)00757-4<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As it turns out, this month is the 20th Anniversary of the seminal paper by Watts and Strogatz &#8211; as marked by Alessandro Vespignani&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/30918\">recent piece in Nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2018\/06\/28\/the-small-world-effect\/&amp;t=The Small-world Effect' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=The Small-world Effect%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2018\/06\/28\/the-small-world-effect\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2018\/06\/28\/the-small-world-effect\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2018\/06\/28\/the-small-world-effect\/&amp;title=The Small-world Effect' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/strongcorrelations\/2018\/06\/28\/the-small-world-effect\/&amp;title=The Small-world Effect' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I gave an impromptu whiteboard tutorial on the Small-world effect as part of the Kent Theory Discussion Group. 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