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Centrality Measures in Social Networks

Elif Su

Dr. Saule

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Motivations

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  • Determine whether Reddit users engage in user-to-user vs user-to-thread interactions
    • Help us understand community dynamics within the platform
      • Ultimately useful to curate a feed for users within their best interest
        • ads, engagement strategies, etc.

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  • Develop ways to enhance use activity and improve their experience.

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Backgrounds

Concepts I learned;

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  • Networks by Mark Newman
    • Centrality
    • Complexity
    • Graphing

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  • Previous publications of Dr. Saule;
    • Computation of Pagerank
    • Closeness Centrality in Distributed Memory

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  • Social Network API’s
    • How it’s mined(currently in the works)

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Current Progress

  1. Developed a basic understanding in the fundamentals of networks

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  1. Basic understanding in the social network API’s and what is possible in terms of research.

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  1. Currently working on understanding FLASK to access Reddit’s API in order to get more information on posts, post times, responses, authors and subreddits.

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Future Plans

Research mining API Data from social networks

Incorporate knowledge from readings on metrics to compare data.

Gather information on trends for most optimal data

Build user-to-user graphs with different time intervals

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Thank You!

Any Questions?