Web Science/Part2: Emerging Web Properties/How big is the World Wide Web/3 ways to study the Web/quiz

{Which are the fundamental types of Models the web can be seen as?} - Descriptive Model - Predictive Model + Software system + Graph Model - Generative Model + Collection of Text documents

{Which of the following are Pros of looking at the Web as a collection of Text documents} - Methods from the field of Software engineering can be applied + Amount of information on the web can be quantified via entropy + Methods from Natural language processing and information retrieval can be applied - Structural information can easily be analysed

{Which of the following are Cons of looking at the Web as a graph of connected Web Pages} + Large amount of data to Model + Ignores crucial information - Trust of web pages cannot be determined - Hard to have a good measure for the size of the Web

{Which of the following statements about modelling the Web are true?} + Generative Models are created to understand why certain properties arise on the Descriptive Models of the Web. - Descriptive Models are created to understand why certain properties arise on the Generative Models of the Web. + Descriptive Models help understanding what properties the World Wide Web has. - When studying the Web as a graph one must use Generative Models. - When studying the Web as a collection of Text documents one must use Descriptive Models. + Descriptive and Generative Models can be used to model collections of text documents as well as graphs of web pages.