Social Network Analysis meets the Semantic Web: What FOAF Reveals About LiveJournal

The Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF) project was begun in 1999 to explore the application of semantic web technologies (RDF/XML) to people's personal details, such as their interests, occupations and personal affiliations, with the aim of facilitating social network data-mining.  We develop here an approach to visualizing FOAF data that employs techniques of quantitative Social Network Analysis, using the foaf:knows and foaf:interest relations extracted from a crawl of FOAF files....

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From: Microsoft Research

Related topics : analysis of social network data / analysis of social networking sites / social networking visualization software / software for social networking site

ViralNewsChart - Viral news discovery, media analytics and brand social metrics

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Analytics tool which analyzes thousands of news sources and delivers news trends discovery in real time, media engagement analytics & statistics and brand social metrics in one solution.

We map & analyze thousands of news sources in real time in pursuit of discovering viral content, reflected in trending news stories. The technology behind our solution uses intel form user engagement on...

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From: Jan Macarol

Related topics : social media marketing news / social media analytics tools / social media branding / social media network marketing services

A visualisation technique for large temporal social network datasets in Hyperbolic space

Uraz Cengiz Türker, Selim Balcısoy

Visualisations of temporal social network datasets have the potential to be complex and require a lot of cognitive input. In this paper, we present a novel visualisation approach that depicts both relational and statistical information of evolving social structures. The underlying framework is implemented by the usage ofHyperbolic Geometry to support focus context rendering. The proposed method guarantees representing prominent social actors through scaling...

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From: Selim Balcisoy

Related topics : social network user statistics

Question: How Do Build a Social Network if I'm Not a Programmer?

I have been following your videos for a while now and want to start up my own social network but i am not a programmer I am actually a mechanical Engineering student writing my thesis but i found opportunity in a particular niche that is fast growing in the world.

In 5 to 10 years statistics shows that this niche will be in hundreds of million persons. i have being looking at different content management approach like ningo but the maximum limit is about 10000 users and it has limited social...

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From: Eli the Computer Guy Live

Related topics : build your own social network