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Network Data Collected via Web

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Synonyms

Data extraction; Social media mining; Web survey; Web-based questionnaires

Glossary

Web survey:

Self-administered questionnaire via web

Coverage error:

Part of the population that is not accessible to be sampled

Nonresponse error:

Nonresponse errors occur when individuals do not answer to one, some, or all the questions. Nonresponse error can be due to the complete failure to collect information (unit nonresponse) or failing to get answer to one or more questions (item nonresponse)

Online Social Networks (OSNs):

Online website or service that is based on social networks or social relations, also known as social networking websites. Users can share information, interests, activities, find contacts, etc. Examples are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, etc.

Network traffic analysis:

Study of the amount and type of information in a certain online network

Ad-hoc applications:

Third-party web-based applications for obtaining online network information

Web crawling:
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  1. Department of Economics, University of Girona, Campus Montilivi, 17071, Girona, Spain

    Lluís Coromina & Germà Coenders

  2. Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Valentina Hlebec

  3. Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Tina Kogovšek

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Correspondence to Lluís Coromina .

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

    Reda Alhajj

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

    Jon Rokne

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  1. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    V. S. Subrahmanian

  2. RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Melbourne, Australia

    Jeffrey Chan

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Coromina, L., Hlebec, V., Kogovšek, T., Coenders, G. (2018). Network Data Collected via Web. 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_397

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