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Research Designs for Social Network Analysis

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Synonyms

Graph analysis; Knowledge discovery in networks; Social network mining

Glossary

SNA :

Social network analysis

SN :

Social network

Definition

Social network analysis – a set of tools and methods that enable to analyze structures called social networks.

Social network – set of nodes and connections between nodes. Nodes may represent people, organizations, departments within organizations, or other social entities. Connections reflect interactions or common activities between nodes.

Introduction

Research design for social network analysis (SNA), as for any other type of research, is a process during which the research question and set of methods that enables to answer the stated question are described. Social network analysis is a multidisciplinary research area, and in consequence a wide range of approaches to analyze network data exists. Nevertheless, each study in the field of social networks contains the following stages: (i) selecting sample, (ii) data collection, (iii) data...

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  1. Department of Informatics, King’s College London, UK, London

    Katarzyna Musial

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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Musial, K. (2014). Research Designs for Social Network Analysis. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_246

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