Readers will remember when I announced Ethan Perlstein‘s plan to crowdfund his scientific research. Well, since then, Ethan has been combining two of my interests: alternative ways of funding science and network science. In his attempt to achieve his goal of raising $25,000, Ethan has been attempting to understand what conditions and connections yield the most money. And network analysis is one component of this.
Some of his analyses have looked at the statistical properties of the donations so far, confirming that donations do not come in at a constant rate (there is often a burst in the beginning and end, with some stagnation in the middle). In addition, Ethan recently emailed me an analysis based on his Facebook friends, and who donated and who did not:
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