When people are facing difficulties, they often feel the need for a confidant-a person to vent
to or a sympathetic ear with whom to talk things through. How do they decide on whom to …

We practice personal network analysis every day. Each of us is the center of our own
universe. We know who our friends are, how they are connected to each other, and what …

Relations between users on social media sites often reflect a mixture of positive (friendly)
and negative (antagonistic) interactions. In contrast to the bulk of research on social …

Social network analysis (SNA) has been a research focus in multiple disciplines for
decades, including sociology, healthcare, business management, etc. Traditional SNA …

We study online social networks in which relationships can be either positive (indicating
relations such as friendship) or negative (indicating relations such as opposition or …

While some social scientists may argue that we have always been networked, the increased
visibility of networks today across economic, political, and social domains can hardly be …

A fundamental open question in the analysis of social networks is to understand the
interplay between similarity and social ties. People are similar to their neighbors in a social …

Does your startup rely on social network analysis? This concise guide provides a statistical
framework to help you identify social processes hidden among the tons of data now …

A crucial task in the analysis of on-line social-networking systems is to identify important
people---those linked by strong social ties---within an individual's network neighborhood …

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