Glossary
- Clustering:
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The process of partition networks into substructures or groups of dense or similar nodes
- Hierarchical clustering:
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The process of partitioning nodes into groups of similar actors; these groups can represent positions
- Social network:
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Consists of nodes representing social agents (individuals or organizations) and links representing the connections between the agents
- Semantic network:
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Structured representations of knowledge that are used for reasoning and inference (Sowa 1992)
Definition
Social media systems and sites are rapidly developing and are being widely adopted. These systems allow people to interact and collaborate with each other and to broadcast user-generated content. In order to map, analyze, and understand these connections, scalable solutions are needed. Generating network representations, visualizations, and analyses of social interactions can reveal macrolevel or...
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Diesner, J., Smith, M.A. (2014). Combining Online Maps with Text Analysis. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_328
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