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Does your startup rely on social network analysis? This concise guide provides a statistical framework to help you identify social processes hidden among the tons of data now available. Social network analysis (SNA) is a discipline that predates Facebook and Twitter by 30 years. Through expert SNA researchers, youll learn concepts and techniques for recognizing patterns in social media, political groups, companies, cultural trends, and interpersonal networks. Youll also learn how to use Python and other open source toolssuch as NetworkX, NumPy, and Matplotlibto gather, analyze, and visualize social data. This book is the perfect marriage between social network theory and practice, and a valuable source of insight and ideas.Discover how internal social networks affect a companys ability to perform Follow terrorists and revolutionaries through the 1998 Khobar Towers bombing, the 9/11 attacks, and the Egyptian uprising Learn how a single special-interest group can control the outcome of a national election Examine relationships between companies through investment networks and shared boards of directors Delve into the anatomy of cultural fads and trendsoffline phenomena often mediated by Twitter and Facebook

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Social Network Analysis for Startups
Maksim Tsvetovat
Alexander Kouznetsov
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Copyright 2011 Maksim Tsvetovat and Alexander Kouznetsov

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Preface

Almost every startup company in 2011 uses the word social in their business plansalthough few actually know how to analyze and understand the social processes that can result in their firms success or failure. If you are working in social media, social CRM, social marketing, organizational consulting, etc., you should read this book for insights on how social systems evolve and change, and how to detect what is going on.

Despite the title, the book is not just for startups. In fact, it is a course-in-a-book, encapsulating nearly a semesters worth of theoretical and practical materialread it and you will know enough about social network analysis to be dangerous. If you are a student in the field, we strongly encourage you to seek out and read every paper and book referred to in the footnotes. This will make you conversant in the classic literature of the field and enable you to confidently start your own research project.

If you are of a technical or computer science background, this book will introduce you to major sociological concepts and tie them back into things that can be programmed, and data that can be analyzed. If your background is social sciences or marketing, you may find some of the background material familiar, but at the same time will learn the quantitative and programmatic approaches to understanding humans in a social setting .

Prerequisites

This books is written to be accessible by a wide audience. We keep jargon to a minimum, and explain terms as they come along. However, there is a serious amount of technical content (as one expects from an OReilly book).

We expect you to be at least marginally conversant in Pythoni.e., able to write your own scripts, understand the basic control structures and data structures of the language. If you are not yet there, we suggest starting with an online Python tutorial or Head First Python by Paul Barry (OReilly).

We do not cover in detail the process of harvesting data from Twitter, Facebook, and other data sources. Other books in OReillys Animal Guide series provide ample coverage, including Twitter API: Up and Running by Kevin Makice, and Mining the Social Web by Matthew Russell.

Open-Source Tools

This book utilizes open-source Python libraries including NetworkX, NumPy, and MatPlotLib.

  • NetworkX packages and documentation can be found at http://networkx.lanl.gov/.

    Aric A. Hagberg, Daniel A. Schult and Pieter J. Swart, Exploring network structure, dynamics, and function using NetworkX, in Proceedings of the 7th Python in Science Conference (SciPy2008), eds. Gel Varoquaux, Travis Vaught, and Jarrod Millman, pp. 1115, Aug 2008.

  • NumPy packages and documentation are at http://numpy.scipy.org/.

    Oliphant, Travis E. Python for Scientific Computing. Computing in Science & Engineering 9(2007), 10-20 Ascher, D. et al. Numerical Python , tech. report UCRL-MA-128569, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2001.

  • MatplotLib can be found at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net.

    Hunter, J.D. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment. Computing in Science & Engineering 9(2007), 90-95

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