Mathematicians mapped “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character
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#2you need a mathematician to come up with that diagram?
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#3I want to see this animated.
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#4you need a mathematician to come up with that diagram?
Certainly not to record the relations or visualize them, but social network analysis certainly falls into the realm of mathematics.
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#5> Whenever two characters appeared within 15 words of one another, a link (or “edge”) was added between them. The links are weighted based on how often the two characters appeared in close proximity.
The interesting part here is that the algorithm needs no upfront understanding about the relationships nor about the type of interactions between characters. You can construct the graph from just looking at the locations of the words associated with each character.
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#6spoiler alert
I wouldn't say this necessarily points to the "main" character, as its just one measure of a character's significance. Littlefinger (Petyr on this diagram) is rather small and on the edge - but he's ultimately responsible for a huge amount of what goes on.
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#7spoiler alert I wouldn't say this necessarily points to the "main" character, as its just one measure of a character's significance. Littlefinger (Petyr on this diagram) is rather small and on the edge - but he's ultimately responsible for a huge amount of what goes on.
you are right but the aim is to find who the writers consider the "main" character and not who had the most impact on the GoT universe. If we take it in that sense the white walkers are probably the most significant.
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#8Reminds me of Six Degrees of Harry Lewis[0], where Mark Zuckerberg set up a graph to find out the most popular person in Harvard, via cross-referencing articles in the crimson. That project may or may not have been the origin of Facebook.
0 - http://bostinno.streetwise.co/all-series/the-harvard-profess...
Re: Mathematicians mapped “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character
#9Or you know... you could count the number of chapters that every character has and come up with the one that has the highest number of chapters as the main character?
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#10...still no cure for cancer.