Month: March 2020

Information Entropy for Social Science research

22 Mar 2020

What is information entropy?  It is borrowed from the discipline of physics which is a measure of the disorder among the gas molecules. In Machine learning, this concept has been used by Dr. Shannon in his paper “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” published in 1948. It is called information entropy. In simple terms, it can be understood as … More Information Entropy for Social Science research

Internet Governance: An introduction

4 Mar 2020

Introducing the concept  The emergence of the internet has provided its parent companies to extract big data which is now called the new oil. Its weight of importance is the digital traces of data around the social lives of netizens. As Francis Fukuyama’s most criticized and appreciated title ‘The end of history,’ depicted the end of the cold … More Internet Governance: An introduction