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Uncovering Randomness and Success in Society
An understanding of how individuals shape and impact the evolution of society is vastly limited due to the unavailability of large-scale reliable datasets that can simultaneously capture information regarding individual movements and social interactions. We believe that the popular Indian film indus...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24533073 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088249 |
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author | Jalan, Sarika Sarkar, Camellia Madhusudanan, Anagha Dwivedi, Sanjiv Kumar |
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description | An understanding of how individuals shape and impact the evolution of society is vastly limited due to the unavailability of large-scale reliable datasets that can simultaneously capture information regarding individual movements and social interactions. We believe that the popular Indian film industry, “Bollywood”, can provide a social network apt for such a study. Bollywood provides massive amounts of real, unbiased data that spans more than 100 years, and hence this network has been used as a model for the present paper. The nodes which maintain a moderate degree or widely cooperate with the other nodes of the network tend to be more fit (measured as the success of the node in the industry) in comparison to the other nodes. The analysis carried forth in the current work, using a conjoined framework of complex network theory and random matrix theory, aims to quantify the elements that determine the fitness of an individual node and the factors that contribute to the robustness of a network. The authors of this paper believe that the method of study used in the current paper can be extended to study various other industries and organizations. |
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spelling | pubmed-39227592014-02-14 Uncovering Randomness and Success in Society Jalan, Sarika Sarkar, Camellia Madhusudanan, Anagha Dwivedi, Sanjiv Kumar PLoS One Research Article An understanding of how individuals shape and impact the evolution of society is vastly limited due to the unavailability of large-scale reliable datasets that can simultaneously capture information regarding individual movements and social interactions. We believe that the popular Indian film industry, “Bollywood”, can provide a social network apt for such a study. Bollywood provides massive amounts of real, unbiased data that spans more than 100 years, and hence this network has been used as a model for the present paper. The nodes which maintain a moderate degree or widely cooperate with the other nodes of the network tend to be more fit (measured as the success of the node in the industry) in comparison to the other nodes. The analysis carried forth in the current work, using a conjoined framework of complex network theory and random matrix theory, aims to quantify the elements that determine the fitness of an individual node and the factors that contribute to the robustness of a network. The authors of this paper believe that the method of study used in the current paper can be extended to study various other industries and organizations. Public Library of Science 2014-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3922759/ /pubmed/24533073 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088249 Text en © 2014 Jalan et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Jalan, Sarika Sarkar, Camellia Madhusudanan, Anagha Dwivedi, Sanjiv Kumar Uncovering Randomness and Success in Society |
title | Uncovering Randomness and Success in Society |
title_full | Uncovering Randomness and Success in Society |
title_fullStr | Uncovering Randomness and Success in Society |
title_full_unstemmed | Uncovering Randomness and Success in Society |
title_short | Uncovering Randomness and Success in Society |
title_sort | uncovering randomness and success in society |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24533073 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088249 |
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