The document discusses using information cascades to analyze relationships between online resources over time. It proposes a model of "transcendental information cascades" to represent how content identifiers are shared across resources. The model defines cascades as networks of nodes representing resources linked by shared identifiers. Applying different matching functions to identify patterns in content can generate different cascade representations from the same data. An example visualization of a hashtag-based cascade is shown. The properties of cascades, such as their size and entropy of identifiers used, can provide insights into the system's behavior.
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