Cutting Edge: A network approach to mixing delegates at meetings
- Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy
- U-Hopper, Italy
- University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Waseda University, Japan
- King’s College London, United Kingdom
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Cutting Edge: A network approach to mixing delegates at meetingseLife 3:e02273.https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02273 - Cite
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Figure 1
Data from initial survey sent to delegates.
Prior to the meeting, we asked each delegate to choose, from a predetermined list, which methods they were familiar with, and which methods they wanted to learn more about. (A) Methods known by …
Figure 2
Speed dates increase network density.
(A) The collaboration network before the meeting: some delegates already knew 10 or more other delegates, whereas others knew just one or two. (B) After the first round of speed dates, 20 new …
Figure 3
The distance between delegates.
(A) Matrix showing the inverse of the ‘acquaintance distance’ between all pairs of delegates, who are arranged horizontally and vertically as in Figure 1. (B) Matrix showing the ‘knowledge …
Figure 4
Increasing α increases new knowledge gained.
(A and B) Average shortest path and new knowledge gained (i.e., the total number of new methods delegates were told about in a given round) vs number of rounds of speed dating for four different …
