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Process of Social Network Analysis

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Synonyms

Research design; Research methodology

Glossary

CRISP-DM:

Cross-industry standard process for data mining – a model for analytical processes in data mining developed by practitioners from several companies

SEMMA:

Sample, explore, modify, model, and assess – a list of sequential stages developed by SAS Institute Inc. for efficient implementation of data mining applications

SN:

Social network

SNA:

Social network analysis

Definition

The process of social network analysis (SNA) is a series of steps (stages) performed to achieve certain goals by means of analytical tools applied to social network data.

In general, six main generic stages of the SNA process can be distinguished:

  1. 1.

    Problem definition

  2. 2.

    Data gathering and preparation

  3. 3.

    Social network modeling

  4. 4.

    Knowledge extraction

  5. 5.

    Evaluation

  6. 6.

    Interpretation and deployment

Each of the above stages should provide some outcome for the next stage, but it is also possible to go back to some previous stages, for example, in order...

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, the decisions no. DEC-2016/21/B/ST6/01463. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 691152. This research is co-financed under the fund for supporting internationally co-financed projects in 2016–2019.

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  1. Department of Computational Intelligence, ENGINE – The European Centre for Data Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, WrocÅ‚aw, Poland

    Przemysław Kazienko

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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Kazienko, P. (2018). Process of Social Network Analysis. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_244

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