Network Analysis
In a world being dominated by Social Media, it is no surprise that the next big leap would be trying to analyze and effectively use interactions by people in the social media platform.
Network Analysis has been there for a while now, where people have tries to analyze complex sets of relationships between members of social systems. I believe with the hype around Big Data, social network analysis has gained some spotlight over the recent years.
LinkedIn introduced "InMaps", which it describes as "What if you could visualize what your network looks like? Would your connections form clusters or groups? Wouldn’t it be great if you could see the way all your connections are related to each other? Even be able to identify the elusive hubs between your professional worlds?"
Here is an example of my LinkedIn profile's network visualization:
LinkedIn Maps:
Observations:
- Thick Clusters are being formed
- UoA forms a Densely Connected network
- Undirected network
Network Visualization using Gephi:
- Gephi is another tool meant for network Analysis. As a part of a project to analyze behavior of News Agencies on Twitter- specifically Bloomberg & The Economist.
Following is the list of information I gathered on initial Analysis:
In a world being dominated by Social Media, it is no surprise that the next big leap would be trying to analyze and effectively use interactions by people in the social media platform.
Network Analysis has been there for a while now, where people have tries to analyze complex sets of relationships between members of social systems. I believe with the hype around Big Data, social network analysis has gained some spotlight over the recent years.
LinkedIn introduced "InMaps", which it describes as "What if you could visualize what your network looks like? Would your connections form clusters or groups? Wouldn’t it be great if you could see the way all your connections are related to each other? Even be able to identify the elusive hubs between your professional worlds?"
Here is an example of my LinkedIn profile's network visualization:
LinkedIn Maps:
Observations:
- Thick Clusters are being formed
- UoA forms a Densely Connected network
- Undirected network
Network Visualization using Gephi:
- Gephi is another tool meant for network Analysis. As a part of a project to analyze behavior of News Agencies on Twitter- specifically Bloomberg & The Economist.
Following is the list of information I gathered on initial Analysis:
nBloomberg has
double the tweets compared to
The Economist
nNumber of followers increased by 1M for The Economist in the past 2 months
nMost tweeted topic with Bloomberg and Economist: Culture & Politics
nMost popular Hashtags: #Shutdown & #Syria
nGeographically significant areas for agencies
nNumber of followers increased by 1M for The Economist in the past 2 months
nMost tweeted topic with Bloomberg and Economist: Culture & Politics
nMost popular Hashtags: #Shutdown & #Syria
nGeographically significant areas for agencies
qBloomberg- USA
qThe Economist
- UK
nDays during
which news agency is less active
qBloombergNews:
Sunday & Monday
qTheEconomist:
Consistent
Network Developed:
nComparison of
news agencies based on
nRate of Spread
nLife Span
nRate of spread for
the top tweet is faster for Bloomberg
nThe original top
tweet for Bloomberg started at Sep 27 05:01:52
and the last re tweet was done at Nov
14 06:12:23
nThe original top
tweet for Economist started at Oct 3 11:43:01 and the last re tweet was done at
Oct 3 23:48:09
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