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History and Evolution of Social Network Visualization

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Synonyms

Network diagram; Sociograms; Sociomatrix; Sociometric diagram

Glossary

Social Network:

A network formed by a group of actors and their interactions. It is often represented as a graph

Vertex (Node):

A fundamental unit of a social network. Can be featureless or can be associated with values, concepts, or classes of objects

Edge (Link):

A fundamental unit of a social network that connects two vertices or nodes. Can be directed or undirected

Sociogram:

Also known as node-link diagram. A graphical representation of a social network, often attaching a glyph or geometric figure to each node and a line segment or curve between the glyphs connected by an edge

Node Degree:

Number of connections of a node in a network. In a directed graph, it can be decomposed in two components, the in-degree and out-degree of a node

Betweenness:

A measure of importance of a node, defined as a function of the shortest paths passing through the node. A similar measure, called the edge betweenness, exists...

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This chapter was prepared by LLNL under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. The author is now affiliated with Google Inc.

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    Carlos D. Correa

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Correa, C.D. (2017). History and Evolution of Social Network 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_102-1

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