Exploring large social networks with matrix-based representations

As people conduct even more of their life electronically, vast new datasets are available for social scientists to analyze. Understanding the structure and evolution of popular online communities such as FaceBook, Flickr or Wikipedia creates new challenges for analysis tools. Information visualization can be a powerful approach to help social scientists both explore these social networks and present their findings to others. While most of the current systems propose node-link...

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From: Microsoft Research

Related topics : structure and evolution of online social networks / social network visualization tools / analysis social networks