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IR Course Lecture 16: Popularity - Page Rank and HITS

Venkatesh Vinayakarao 19 min Published Oct 2020

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About this video

PageRank and HITS are two classic ways to score how important a web page is, and this lecture works through both, including the random surfer idea and Markov chains.

Good to know: Maths-heavy university lecture

Why watch it

Venkatesh Vinayakarao walks through PageRank and HITS, two classic ways to score how important a page is. It involves Markov chains, so expect some maths.

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