Social Network Analysis
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Social Network Analysis (CS853)
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Different sources of network data, types of networks, tools for visualizing network data, review of graph theory basics. Structural properties of networks: Notions of centrality, cohesiveness of subgroups, roles and positions, structural equivalence, equitable partitions, stochastic block models. Cascading properties of networks: Information/influence diffusion on networks, maximizing influence spread, power law and heavy tail distributions, preferential attachment models, small world phenomenon. Mining Graphs: Community and cluster detection: random walks, spectral methods; link analysis for web mining.