12Social Network Analysis Tools
12.1 OVERVIEW OF SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS TOOLS
These tools facilitate quantitative or qualitative analysis of social networks by describing features of a network either through numerical or visual representation.
Networks can consist of anything from families [1], project teams, classrooms, sports teams, legislatures, nation-states, disease vectors, membership on networking websites like Twitter or Facebook or even the internet. Networks can consist of direct linkages between nodes or indirect linkages based upon shared attributes, shared attendance at events or common affiliations.[2] Network features can be at the level of individual nodes, dyads, triads, ties and/or edges, or ...
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