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A Comparative Analysis of Different Social Network Parameters Derived from Facebook Profiles

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In social network analysis (SNA), using online social media, it is possible to collect large open source information and to analyze those data for knowing the characteristics of these networks. The main objective of this work is to study online social network parameters commonly used to explain social structures. In this paper, we have extracted data from the three real-time facebook accounts using Netvizz application. Gephi, a open source free software, is used for analysis and evaluation of these network parameters. This analysis shows some well-known network parameters like calculating clustering coefficient (CC) of clusters, group formation, finding node degree distribution (NDD), identifying influential node etc., which can be used for further feature extraction.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Subrata Dey, Aniket Sinha and Dr. Krishnendu Dutta for sharing their Facebook profiles with us for data collection purposes.

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  1. Department of Information Technology, GCECT, Kolkata, India

    Paramita Dey

  2. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

    Sarbani Roy

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences, Visakhapatnam, India

    Suresh Chandra Satapathy

  2. Department of CSE, CMR Technical Campus, Hyderabad, India

    K. Srujan Raju

  3. Computer Science & Engineering, Kalyani University, Nadia, West Bengal, India

    Jyotsna Kumar Mandal

  4. Electronics and Communication Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Vikrant Bhateja

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Dey, P., Roy, S. (2016). A Comparative Analysis of Different Social Network Parameters Derived from Facebook Profiles. In: Satapathy, S., Raju, K., Mandal, J., Bhateja, V. (eds) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer and Communication Technologies. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 379. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2517-1_13

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