Social Networks and SNA Social Networks and SNA Presenter: Abram Hindle, and others (such as Chris Bird who led the discussion) Abram Hindle 1
Social Networks and SNA SNA Workshop • Why are they useful – not sure • We wanted to know problems with mining them Abram Hindle 2
Social Networks and SNA Agreed Upon some general topics • Multi-edge graphs - multiple purpose • Large network analysis • Longitudinal SNA Abram Hindle 3
Social Networks and SNA Most SNA is about • Stability • Centrality • used for management • find information and information dissemination • validating Conway’s law • trends and being trendy • Crowston & Howison deal with “Validity Issues” Abram Hindle 4
Social Networks and SNA What is SNA good for? • What to use • Who uses it • Who knows it • Awareness Abram Hindle 5
Social Networks and SNA Longitudinal • measure over time • snapshots • measure over snapshot • metric deltas • hard to map real world to these changing network properties Abram Hindle 6
Social Networks and SNA Example issue • The lynchpin, a bottleneck • The pros and cons of bottlenecks – Communication complexity – Value of lynchpin • Social networks in ecologies of applications Abram Hindle 7
Social Networks and SNA Conclusions • SN/SNA used to investigate social structures • Useful for awareness and expertise • Social structure is popular for management • Longitudinal studies combined with SNA is a field ripe for the picking • Investigate outside the “box” (software ecologies) Abram Hindle 8
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