'Lipstick on a pig' -- tracking the life and death of news
Monday, July 13, 2009 - 16:35
in Mathematics & Economics
By observing the global flow of news online, Cornell computer scientists have managed to track and analyze the "news cycle" -- the way stories rise and fall in popularity.
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