Comment Re:Slices of a datawarehouse? (Score 5, Informative) 167
The results have been known by social networks researchers long ago. They are being "discovered" by physicists, complex system scientists, and computer scientists.
What is interesting actually is NOT the clumps (the paper is wrong), but the (possibly heterogeneous, multi-modal and dynamic) networks and their various measurements that could reveal lots of things.
The parent is right in pointing a possible method of extracting the results, but ignores how one constructs the data warehouse in the first place and the significance of networks -- especially the social and dynamic ones -- instead of data warehouse, both of which are not trivial problems.
Several websites may enlighten those who are interested in probing social networks deeper:
http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/
INSNA is the professional association for researchers interested in social network analysis.
http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/
CASOS brings together computer science, dynamic network analysis and the empirical study of complex socio-technical systems. Computational and social network techniques are combined to develop a better understanding of the fundamental principles of organizing, coordinating, managing and destabilizing systems of intelligent adaptive agents (human and artificial) engaged in real tasks at the team, organizational or social level. Whether the research involves the development of metrics, theories, computer simulations, toolkits, or new data analysis techniques advances in computer science are combined with a deep understanding of the underlying cognitive, social, political, business and policy issues.
http://www.cmu.edu/joss/
The Journal of Social Structure (JoSS) is an electronic journal of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). It is designed to facilitate timely dissemination of state-of-the-art results in the interdisciplinary research area of social structure. It publishes empirical, theoretical and methodological articles.
JoSS publishes manuscripts that are focused on social structure-on the patterning of social linkages among actors. These actors could be comprised of different types or levels or analysis, such as animals, humans, artificial agents, groups or organizations. INSNA was founded on the premise that the behavior and lives of social entities are affected by their position in the overall social structure. By examining the etiology and consequences of structural forms overall, of the location of entities within these structures, and of the formation and dynamics of ties that make up these structures, INSNA hopes to learn about the parts of behavior that are uniquely social.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=JournalUR L&_cdi=5969&_auth=y&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_u rlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=0dbd43b8d4784bc1532be7b 6c056be81
Publication of social networks papers.
What is interesting actually is NOT the clumps (the paper is wrong), but the (possibly heterogeneous, multi-modal and dynamic) networks and their various measurements that could reveal lots of things.
The parent is right in pointing a possible method of extracting the results, but ignores how one constructs the data warehouse in the first place and the significance of networks -- especially the social and dynamic ones -- instead of data warehouse, both of which are not trivial problems.
Several websites may enlighten those who are interested in probing social networks deeper:
http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/
INSNA is the professional association for researchers interested in social network analysis.
http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/
CASOS brings together computer science, dynamic network analysis and the empirical study of complex socio-technical systems. Computational and social network techniques are combined to develop a better understanding of the fundamental principles of organizing, coordinating, managing and destabilizing systems of intelligent adaptive agents (human and artificial) engaged in real tasks at the team, organizational or social level. Whether the research involves the development of metrics, theories, computer simulations, toolkits, or new data analysis techniques advances in computer science are combined with a deep understanding of the underlying cognitive, social, political, business and policy issues.
http://www.cmu.edu/joss/
The Journal of Social Structure (JoSS) is an electronic journal of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). It is designed to facilitate timely dissemination of state-of-the-art results in the interdisciplinary research area of social structure. It publishes empirical, theoretical and methodological articles.
JoSS publishes manuscripts that are focused on social structure-on the patterning of social linkages among actors. These actors could be comprised of different types or levels or analysis, such as animals, humans, artificial agents, groups or organizations. INSNA was founded on the premise that the behavior and lives of social entities are affected by their position in the overall social structure. By examining the etiology and consequences of structural forms overall, of the location of entities within these structures, and of the formation and dynamics of ties that make up these structures, INSNA hopes to learn about the parts of behavior that are uniquely social.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=JournalU
Publication of social networks papers.