Author(s): Gomez, Farid Nicolás Calderón
Date: 2018
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/36291
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Subject(s): Referral network; PageRank; Search engine
Author(s): Gomez, Farid Nicolás Calderón
Date: 2018
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/36291
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Subject(s): Referral network; PageRank; Search engine
Dissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Data Science and Advanced Analytics
PageRank algorithm is nowadays the baseline in search engine being the tool behind Google’s operation. However, since it was defined many different approaches have been tried in different knowledge areas. In this document a description of this tool, specification of the different areas where it has been used and new application of this algorithm in a physician referral network are presented.