Data Preparation for Social Network Mining and Analysis

• Main Author: WANG, Yazhe
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: social network; Twitter; stream API; sample quality; privacy; data utility; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/101; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1100&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This dissertation studies the problem of preparing good-quality social network data for data analysis and mining. Modern online social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn have rapidly grown in popularity. The consequent availability of a wealth of social network data provides an unprece...