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ORA: A Toolkit for Dynamic Network Analysis and Visualization

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Synonyms

*ORA; ORA; ORA Toolkit; ORA-Lite; ORA-NetScenes – note ORA is not an acronym; ORA-PRO

Glossary

Dynamic networks:

Networks that vary through time. An example is the network of who talks to whom within a company by day. Dynamic networks are also referred to as temporal networks, time variant networks, and dynamical networks.

Meta-networks:

A network of networks, in which there are generally multiple classes of nodes and multiple classes of link. Meta-networks are also referred to as high-dimensional networks and geo-temporally embedded meta-networks.

Social media:

Data generated by an online social networking tools such as Twitter, Facebook, or Foursquare. Social media networks are networks derived from social media data such as the Twitter retweet network. Social media are also referred to as online source, open-source, and e-media.

Social network analysis:

Graphical, statistical, and visualization metrics, algorithms, and techniques for analyzing structural data that can be...

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Acknowledgments

This research is part of the Dynamics Networks project in the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS; http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu) at Carnegie Mellon University. The development of ORA was supported in part by CMU, Carley Technologies Inc. adba Netanomics, KAIST, ONR, AFOSR, ARL, ARO, NSF, and private donations.

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Kathleen M. Carley

  2. Netanomics, Sewickley, PA, 15143, USA

    Kathleen M. Carley

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Vladimir Batagelj

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Carley, K.M. (2017). ORA: A Toolkit for Dynamic Network Analysis and Visualization. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_309-1

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