{"id":1946,"date":"2007-04-06T16:29:33","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T21:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2007\/04\/06\/page-rank-simplified-in-matlab-for-the-classroom\/"},"modified":"2007-04-06T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T21:31:24","slug":"page-rank-simplified-in-matlab-for-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2007\/04\/06\/page-rank-simplified-in-matlab-for-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Rank (simplified) in MATLAB for the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently doing a university tour as part of my role in Applications Engineering, so I have been thinking about the educational uses of MATLAB.  Find me next week at University of North Texas and Texas A&#038;M.<\/p>\n<p>I liked this simplified <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PageRank\">Page Rank<\/a> algorithm that was posted <a title=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/loadFile.do?objectId=14258&#038;objectType=file (link no longer works)\">here<\/a> at MATLAB Central File Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>This struck me because it had an interesting animation that helped to clarify the convergence of &#8220;popularity&#8221; in a simple network.  I thought I could make an intuitive guess as to the answers, but I was wrong even on this simple network.  Along with a good visualization, this included reference for more information and built off of previous work by Cleve himself (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/company\/aboutus\/founders\/clevemoler.html\">Cleve Moler<\/a>, &#8220;The World&#8217;s First MATLAB programmer!).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/..\/images\/pick\/screenshot.jpg\" title=\"screenshot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1945\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/..\/images\/pick\/screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"screenshot.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently doing a university tour as part of my role in Applications Engineering, so I have been thinking about the educational uses of MATLAB.  Find me next week at University of North Texas&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2007\/04\/06\/page-rank-simplified-in-matlab-for-the-classroom\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}