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Social Network Analysis: Tasks and Tools. Steven Loscalzo and Lei Yu Department of Computer Science Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science State University of New York at Binghamton. Networks. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gustavog/9708628/in/set-222111/. Above:
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Social Network Analysis: Tasks and Tools Steven Loscalzo and Lei Yu Department of Computer Science Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science State University of New York at Binghamton
Networks http://www.flickr.com/photos/gustavog/9708628/in/set-222111/ Above: Flickr users network Left: Relationship Network http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/MAS/MAS.965/f04/assignments/lam/assg2/3.jpg
Tasks in SNA • Traditional SNA consists of tasks that measure structural properties of networks • Centrality Measures: degree, betweenness, closeness, eigenvector • Community Measures: cliques, cores, clans • Visualization analysis involves the creation of meaningful depictions of networks • Link mining describes contemporary analytical methods that apply data mining techniques to networks • Link based object classification, link existence prediction, group detection…
Evaluated Tools • Selected based on diverse environments • Stand alone software packages • Code libraries • Web Based interfaces • Well known and widely available