Analysis team drills down on social networks
Sunday, August 3, 2014 - 05:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Whether a teacher is posting a link for a colleague or a pet owner is sending her sister a photo of her sleeping dog, everything is of consequence for a newer breed of social network analysts who are trying to use their computers to map out social behavior and understand social structures. Researchers are eyeballing messages online, from informational, to chatty, to networking attempts—who likes who and who is following who. MIT Technology Review now reports on a recent effort to peer even further into social structures. In a paper recently submitted to the arXiv server, a team takes a still more nuanced analysis of online social data.