Propagation of Rumour Through a Social Network

We focus on the study of rumour, a social phenomenon that is characterized by the spread of information throughout a social network. The pattern of the spread is just as important to characterizing a rumour as the information itself. In offline settings, rumours are typically spread in peer-to-peer fashion or through small groups because most individuals do not have the ability to expose it to many of their friends at the same time. Online social networks, conversely, allow individuals to make...

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From: Microsoft Research

Related topics : social network information / analysis of social networking

Methods Matter presents: Episode 4 - Network analysis

Covert Network in the Suffragettes Movement - Florence Hart and Michel Scholer interview Nick Crossley, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.

Methods Matter is a video series directed by Dr Clare Saunders, Associate Professor at the University of Exeter (Cornwall), as part of the Exeter Q-Step Centre teaching resources in Applied Data Analysis. In these videos, Social Science researchers describe step-by-step how they approached statistical analysis in one of their seminal...

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From: Exeter Q-Step Centre

Related topics : social network analysis research papers

Social Network Analysis with the Information Workbench

A small showcase of how one can easily integrate Twitter data into the Information Workbench and do exploration and analysis ontop of it.

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From: phaasenase

Related topics : analysis of social network data

Experimental Analysis on Access Control Using Trust Parameter for Social Network

Its a student level project developed in JAVA, the core concept of this project is

Technology made socializing very simple and easy, connecting everyone is just a matter of a click today. The security of our personal information and sharing that information in the digital world has always been a major challenge for the ever-growing social networks. When it comes to the relationship between people and technology, the attribution of trust is a matter of dispute always. This paper proposes an...

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From: SKIVE PROJECTS CHENNAI

Related topics : development of social network analysis

OSINT Analysis of Sudan and South Sudan

Less than four months ago, the Southern portion of Sudan seceded and formed South Sudan, only the 5th country to be created this century. In this session, we will demonstrate how Palantir can draw from a plethora of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) data sources (including academic research, blogs, news media, NGO reports and United Nations studies) to rapidly construct an understanding of the conflict underlying this somewhat anomalous 21st Century event. Using a suite of Palantir Helpers...

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From: Palantir

Related topics : social network open source / open source social media

Visualize and Understand Complex RDF Data with Tom Sawyer Perspectives

This video showcases the RDF visualization and social network analysis capabilities of Tom Sawyer Perspectives, which is used for building graph visualization and analysis applications.

The RDF data set used in this example is from SEC 10-K filings, involving more than 1.8 million triples. The data is accessed from Oracle Database 11g Semantic Technologies.

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From: Tom Sawyer Software

Related topics : analysis of social network data

Uncovering Meaning in Twitter Networks Using NodeXL Pro

This walkthrough video demonstrates one variety of user-friendly social media data mining -- how to uncover meaning in Twitter search networks using the software package NodeXL Pro. Three applications: NodeXL's ready-made Top Ten function, working with word pairs in the text of Tweets to generate semantic networks, and characterizing hashtag overlaps for a more concentrated account of meaning in network form. I work with the example of the hashtag #Paris. Created for the undergraduate social...

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From: James Cook

Related topics : social network analysis courses / network analysis social media

Daniel Rosenberg: Toward a Quantitative History of Data HD

We live in a time of data. Around us, tools for creating, storing, communicating, and manipulating data grow ever more sophisticated and ubiquitous. Data flows constantly among our computers, handheld devices, cell phones, and an entire “internet of things” from refrigerators to burglar alarms. Yet, the cultural and intellectual frameworks that underlie our present data-saturated condition are old, and their histories illuminate important aspects of the present. In his lecture, Axel...

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From: American Academy in Berlin

Related topics : analysis of social network data

The Relationships among Social Interaction, Economics, and Culture

To view the handout associated with this talk, go here: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/what-we-do/information/video/ac_809/

On March 15, 2016, Matthew Peeples (Arizona State University) presented “The Relationships among Social Interaction, Economics, and Culture.”

From Matt:

"The work I will present represents the initial results of a large and collaborative project involving Archaeology Southwest, the University of Arizona, and Arizona State University. It is focused on using...

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From: ArchaeologySouthwest

Related topics : social network analysis culture / economic and social networking / social networking culture

Introduction to Network Methods and Measures

Presented by Jim Moody, this is a basic overview of the field and an introduction to data methods and analysis styles. From Day 1 of the 2016 Social Networks and Health workshop at Duke University.

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From: Duke SSRI

Related topics : introduction to social network analysis