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Course Overview & Introduction to Social Network Analysis
How to analyse social networks?
Introduction
Social network is a social structure made up of individuals (or organizations) called “nodes”, which are connected by one or more types of relationships, represented by “links”. Friendship Kinship Common Interest ….
Graph-based structures are very complex.
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Source: http://followingfactory.com/
Introduction
Various nature and society systems can be described as complex networks social systems, biological systems, and communication systems.
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By presented as a graph, vertices (nodes) represent individuals or organizations and edges (links) represent interaction among them
Source: http://www.fmsasg.com/SocialNetworkAnalysis
Introduction
Why is network anatomy so important to characterize? Because structure always affects function.
For instance, the topology of social networks affects the spread of information.
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Course Overview
Mathematics of Graph Measures in Social Networks Presentation of Existing Works Explore Social Network Analysis: Cliques and
Sub-Groups Explore Social Network Analysis: Attributes
and Relations Explore Social Network Analysis: Cohesion
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Course Overview
Explore Social Network Analysis: Sentiment and Friendship
Explore Social Network Analysis: Center and Periphery
Explore Social Network Analysis: Brokers and Bridges
Explore Social Network Analysis: Ranking (Prestige) Explore Social Network Analysis: Genealogies and
Citations Mini-Project Presentation
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“Pajek”: Large Network Analysis Software
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Introduction to Slovenian Spider: Pajek
http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/ Free software Windows 32 bit
Pajek 2.05
“Whom would you choose as a friend ?”
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Introduction to Slovenian Spider: Pajek
Social Network Analysis: Theory and Applications
Pajek: http://pajek.imfm.si/doku.php?id=download
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