Chapter 9. It's All About Your Connections – Social Network Analysis
In this chapter, you will cover:
- Downloading social network data using public APIs
- Creating adjacency matrices and edge lists
- Plotting social network data
- Computing important network metrics
Introduction
When we think of the term "social network," sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, and Meetup immediately come to mind. However, data analysts have applied the concepts of social network analysis in domains as varied as co-authorship networks, human networks, the spread of disease, migratory birds, and interlocking corporate board memberships, just to name a few. In this chapter, we will cover recipes to make sense of social network data. R provides multiple packages ...
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