Social Network Analysis
Network analysis is the application of rigorous algorithms and mathematical techniques to clean, dissect, and analyze networks. Networks can represent a wide variety of data and problems from social networks of individuals and organizations, value networks, communication networks, logistics networks and more. Network analysis can be used to identify critical nodes, links, and regions.
Most organizations do not even realize that their data includes network structures. Consequently, they lose all benefits of analyzing their networks. For example, Law Enforcement organizations have multiple databases containing years of information regarding activities in their communities. What are the relevant social networks in these communities? Who are the key players? How are these networks changing over time? Social Network Analysis (SNA) can be applied to this data.
A Unique Approach
Blue Spider™ is unique in its approach to Social Network Analysis. Each piece of functionality is encapsulated as a visual element. The user drags and drops elements onto a workspace and connects them together creating an analytical workflow. Workflows provide the ability to repeat the same analytical steps. Workflows can be shared among analysts ensuring that the same steps are performed for each methodology. A key issue of social networks is that they change. How long does it take to perform a rigorous analysis of a social network? More importantly, how long does it take to do the same analysis when the network has changed? Blue Spider™ can do this in a few clicks, ensuring the same steps are performed.
Elements are the building blocks of workflows and include the following:
- Graph algorithms (centrality, k-cores, clustering, etc)
- Matrix mathematics
- Statistics
- Data manipulation (change data format, clean text, disambiguate, search, etc)
- Read/write files (multiple formats)
- Database queries
- Network visualization
- Data visualization (charts, grid views)
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