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Prof. Fowler and colleagues have proven that simple messages like “I voted” on social online networks like Facebook had a measurable effect that motivated tens of thousands of people to get out and vote

Thanks to computational social science methods, the study of social networks in online settings became very popular, because it allows us to web scrape the data. When someone refers to “social networks” in the social science, it is implied that we talk about social media like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat.

In the lecture, we reviewed a case study of Alan Greenspan, the long-serving Chairman of U.S. monetary policy. What was the main takeaway from this case study?  

In the lecture, we said that “all models are wrong, but some are useful”. Why is that?

Someone tells you that a pattern is “non-linear”. Which of the following statement is something you can NOT expect?  

Which constitutional amendment outlaws illegal searches and seizures by police?

Prof. James Fowler showed us a study where he discussed that something extends up to three degrees of separation in social networks. What was this influential and pioneering study about?  

We saw that the world’s global capacity to store information has grown a lot during the phase of digitalization during the 1990s and early 2000s. How fast did it grow?

The ________ Amendment is the vehicle used to apply the protection of the Bill of Rights to the states.

Your cousin’s friend has a buddy whose sister has a colleague whose mom’s nephew knows the First Lady, but only knows her and never met the President. How many degrees of separation (of any direct or indirect kind) are there between you (!) and the President based on the arising network? (be careful when thinking about the solution!)