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International Conference on Computer-Mediated Social Networking

ICCMSN 2008: Computer-Mediated Social Networking pp 134–149Cite as

Data in Social Network Analysis

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Social Network research relies on a variety of data-sources, depending on the problem-scenario and the questions, which the research is trying to answer or inform. In this paper, we analyze some of the data sources indexed by the sizes of these data-sets and relating them back to the research question, which the data-set is used for. In carrying out such an exercise, our goal is to assign a confidence metric to the data-set when tied to the field within the Social Network analysis that the data is used for. This will lay the foundation for benchmarking the results of any social networking study by means of concrete requirements for the data-sets used in research.

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  • Social Network Analysis
  • Resource Description Framework
  • Online Social Network
  • Community Formation
  • Place Semantic

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Vaidyanathan, A., Shore, M., Billinghurst, M. (2009). Data in Social Network Analysis. In: Purvis, M., Savarimuthu, B.T.R. (eds) Computer-Mediated Social Networking. ICCMSN 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5322. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02276-0_14

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