Social network

Topics

• Structural properties
  • Homophily
  • Social status
  • Geography and social network
  • Structure of social networks
• Dynamics of social networks
  • Social network formation
  • Information flow
  • Homophily and influence
  • Social learning
  • Evolution of social network
• Privacy
  • Privacy and Deanonymization
  • Identity resolution

Review

• Network analysis in the social science
• Dynamics of Dyads in Social Networks: Assortative, Relational, and Proximity Mechanisms

People

• http://sna-projects.com/sna/

Projects

• http://sensible.dtu.dk

Animal

• Animal social network

Data

• Facebook100 by Mason Porter. Currently not officially available.

• http://littlesis.org/ - LittleSis* is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.

• Irish blogosphere by Conrad Lee
• Communication networks part 3: The University of Kiel E-mail dataset
• http://www.sociopatterns.org/datasets/primary-school-cumulative-networks/ - primary school

Articles

• The economist:Untangling the social web - A good summary of social network analysis.
• http://www.kaggle.com/blog/2011/01/15/how-we-did-it-the-winners-of-the-ijcnn-social-network-challenge/ - deanonymizing a social network.
• http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/on-sharing-genes-with-friends/ - A nice article on ¹.
• A comparative study of social network models: Network evolution models and nodal attribute models