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Social Network Classification
through Data Partitioning
17.1 INTRODUCTION
One consideration for social network providers is that this data will accumulate over time. Because
of the highly desirable nature of social network longitudinal data, it is unlikely that a network such
as Facebook will ever delete data they obtain. Even if later revisions directly contradict previously
entered data, this is still valuable in tracking change in attitudes over time. Because of this, per-
forming calculations and inference on this data will become more difcult over time, because of
the size of this data. However, we now show that by intelligently exam ...