Social Network Analysis by Xiaohan Zeng

Social Network Analysis: What It Is, Why We Should Care, and What We Can Learn From It

by Xiaohan Zeng

The advent of the social networks has completely changed our daily life. The deluge of data collected on Social Network Services (SNS) and recent developments in complex network theory have enabled many marvelous predictive analysis, which tells us many amazing stories.

Why do we often feel that "the world is so small?" Is the six-degree separation purely imagination or based on...

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From: Groupon OnAir

Related topics : analysis of social network data

BSS RINS Lecture 10.11.13: Social Network Theory & HIV

The Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences presents "Alcohol Use Among Populations at Greater Risk for HIV: Findings from China and Baltimore, MD," featuring Dr. Cui Yang (Johns Hopkins).

Dr. Yang's research is concerned with HIV risk behaviors and substance use, particularly with disadvantaged communities in both domestic and international settings. Her research activities have centered around three areas: 1) to utilize advanced statistical techniques to evaluate HIV prevention...

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From: BrownBSS

Related topics : social network analysis theory / analysis of social networking

Social Network Analysis - Model and theory of Friendships - animation 1

Friendship growth and management driven by social processes, activities and interests; measurement, stability and behavior cascading

We dedicated our research to "Network processes that drive changes in the social network structure"

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From: Sasha Rudan

Related topics : social network analysis theory / analysis of social networking

Social network

A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors and a set of the dyadic ties between these actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures. The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics.

This video targeted...

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From: encyclopediacc

Related topics : structure of social network / global social networking / analysis social networks

Theory of Networking

The field of social network analysis gives us a language for talking about what networks are and why they function the way they do. In this video, we explore the difference between networks and institutions, and centralized and de-centralized networks. We also take a look at why networks are so hard to map and at friendship networks on a Birthright bus.

The video was produced at the first-ever NetWORKS convening, hosted by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, where some of the...

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From: Leadelnet

Related topics : social network analysis theory / analysis of social networking / social and networking community

Rob Chew, Peter Baumgartner | Connected: A Social Network Analysis Tutorial with NetworkX

PyData Carolinas 2016

Social Network Analysis (SNA), the study of the relational structure between actors, is used throughout the social and natural sciences to discover insight from connected entities. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the NetworkX library to analyze network data in Python, emphasizing intuition over theory.

Methods will be illustrated using a dataset of the romantic relationships between characters on "Grey's Anatomy", an American medical drama on the ABC...

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From: PyData

Related topics : social network analysis tutorial / analysis social network

Sunoikisis DC History and Archaeology Fall 2016: Session 10

Sunoikisis Digital Classics programme, Fall 2016 semester, Digital Approaches to History and Archaeology.

Session 10: Network Analysis, Silke Vanbeselaere (KU Leuven) and Greg Woolf (Institute of Classical Studies)

Class outline: https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2016-2017/wiki/Session-10:-Network-Analysis

Full programme: https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2016-2017/wiki/Fall-2016:-Digital-History-Archaeology

This session outlines some of the uses of network theory of...

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From: Sunoikisis DC

Related topics : social network analysis visualization software / social networking visualization software

The Effects of Corruption on Individual Communication Behavior: The Case of Enron

This research investigates the email networks within Enron prior to its demise using both content analysis and social network analysis. The study presents comparisons the email networks and communication patterns of legitimate projects at Enron and the fraudulent projects. Brandy Aven, assistant professor of organizational behavior and theory at the Tepper School of Business, presented this material at the 2014 Tepper School Alumni Reunion on April 12, 2014.

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From: TepperCMU

Related topics : social network analysis case study / social network analysis business / analysis social networks / schools using social networking

2013 Everett M. Rogers Award Colloquium

Stanford Professor of Sociology Mark Granovetter is the recipient of the 2013 Everett M. Rogers Award.

Cited over 24,000 times, Granovetter's 1973 paper "The Strength of Weak Ties" is a social science classic and a milestone in network theory. Our close friends are strongly in touch with us and each other, he wrote, but our acquaintances -- weak ties -- are crucial bridges to other densely knit clumps of close friends. The more weak ties we have, the more in touch we are with ideas, fashions,...

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From: USC Annenberg

Related topics : social network analysis theory / analysis of social networking

The Social Network -- Dramatica Users Group

In this video Dramatica co-creator Chris Huntley leads a group analysis of the film "The Social Network".

For those unfamiliar with the theory, Dramatica sees story structure less as a template and more as a matter of perspective. Taking the given that stories are analogies to the mind's problem-solving process, the theory considers a story meaningful and effective when it completely covers all the different ways of seeing a particular inequity.

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From: Jim Hull

Related topics : analysis social network film / analysis social network