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ORA: A Toolkit for Dynamic Network Analysis and Visualization

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Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining

Synonyms

ORA; *ORA; ORA-NetScenes; ORA toolkit

Glossary

Social Network Analysis :

Graphical, statistical, and visualization metrics, algorithms, and techniques for analyzing structural data that can be represented as nodes and relations. Social network analysis is also referred to as network analysis, dynamic network analysis, network science, SNA, and DNA

Social Media :

Data generated by online social networking tools such as Twitter, Facebook, or Foursquare. Social media networks are networks derived from social media data such as the Twitter retweet network. Social media are also referred to as online sources, open source, and e-media

Dynamic Networks :

Networks that vary through time. An example is the network of who talks to whom within a company by day. Dynamic networks are also referred to as temporal networks, time variant networks, and dynamical networks

Spatial Networks :

Networks embedded in space such that each node has one or more locations at which it occurs. An example...

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Kathleen M. Carley

  2. Netanomics, Sewickley, PA, USA

    Kathleen M. Carley

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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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Carley, K.M. (2014). ORA: A Toolkit for Dynamic Network Analysis and Visualization. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_309

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