An empirical analysis of a network of expertise

• Main Authors: LE TRUC VIET, NGUYEN, Minh Thap
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Communities; Social network services; Principal component analysis; Correlation; Conferences; Standards; Educational institutions; Databases and Information Systems; Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3468; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4469/viewcontent/C70___An_Empirical_Analysis_of_a_Network_of_Expertise__WBA_ASONAM2013_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we analyze the network of expertise constructed from the interactions of users on the online questionanswering (QA) community of Stack Overflow. This community was built with the intention of helping users with their programming tasks and, thus, questions are expected to be highly fac...