White Papers
The following white papers provide information about using Blue SpiderTM and Social Network Analysis.
- Social Network Analysis with Blue Spider (pdf)
This document provides an overview of conducting Social Network Analysis in an operational environment using Blue SpiderTM. It walks through a simple example including demonstration a workflow which calculates some basic nodal metrics for the network. It will provide an overview of the basic activities needed to perform network analysis on existing data stores.
- A Comparison of Link Analysis and Network Analysis (pdf)
This paper walks the reader through a comparison of the differences between Link Analysis and Social Network Analysis. Often these two methodologies are confused with one another and this paper points out the strengths of each. The goal of the paper is to demonstrate that the two techniques are complimentary.