Tubes and Bubbles

Topological confinement of recommendations on YouTube

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Supplemental material to the article published in PLOS ONE by Camille Roth, Antoine Mazieres and Telmo Menezes

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  • ./various-computations.nb (mathematica notebook)

    • Studying the plateau ; Seed information exploration ; Plateau shape exploration ; Recommendation lifespans (figures 1 and 2) ; Visualization of human study (figure 6); Category transitions (figure 7) ; Provenance of new suggestions (figure 8)


  • ./recommendation-graphs.ipynb (jupyter notebook)

    • Metadata enriching ; Random walks, induced recommendation graphs and sample visualizations (figure 4), Correlation graphs (figure 5), Generate HTML pages for human study.


  • ./crawler/ (python/golang scripts)

    • Seeds were splitted among several servers. This is the code for one server.

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