Monday 14 October 2013

Visualizing rings in social network

Let's say we were assigned the task of identifying the shortest path of sending a message in a social network of friends, how do we go about in deciding which persons to send the message to:

Algorithm:

1. extract all friends (or interactions)
2. extract friends for each friend (for example if you are friends with A, extract all the friends of A)
3. find all the friends who are common to you and your friend
4. apply a clustering algorithm where distance between centre of clusters is maximised while distance between points is minimised

and we have the rings in a social network.

Social network rings

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