1. Social Network Analysis: Tasks and Tools Steven Loscalzo and Lei Yu Department of Computer Science Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science State University of New York at Binghamton

2. Networks http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/MAS/MAS.965/f04/assignments/lam/assg2/3.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/gustavog/9708628/in/set-222111/ Above: Flickr users network Left: Relationship Network

3. Tasks in SNA  Traditional SNA consists of tasks that measure structural properties of networks Centrality Measures: degree, betweenness, closeness, eigenvector Community Measures: cliques, cores, clans  Visualization analysis involves the creation of meaningful depictions of networks  Link mining describes contemporary analytical methods that apply data mining techniques to networks Link based object classification, link existence prediction, group detection…

4. Evaluated Tools  Selected based on diverse environments Stand alone software packages Code libraries Web Based interfaces  Well known and widely available