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Emergent Data Mining Tools for Social Network Analysis

Emergent Data Mining Tools for Social Network Analysis

Dhiraj Murthy, Alexander Gross, Alex Takata
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466672307|ISBN10: 1466672307|EISBN13: 9781466672314
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7230-7.ch078
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Murthy, Dhiraj, et al. "Emergent Data Mining Tools for Social Network Analysis." Open Source Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 1539-1556. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7230-7.ch078

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Murthy, D., Gross, A., & Takata, A. (2015). Emergent Data Mining Tools for Social Network Analysis. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Open Source Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1539-1556). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7230-7.ch078

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Murthy, Dhiraj, Alexander Gross, and Alex Takata. "Emergent Data Mining Tools for Social Network Analysis." In Open Source Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1539-1556. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7230-7.ch078

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Abstract

This chapter identifies a number of the most common data mining toolkits and evaluates their utility in the extraction of data from heterogeneous online social networks. It introduces not only the complexities of scraping data from the diverse forms of data manifested in these sources, but also critically evaluates currently available tools. This analysis is followed by a presentation and discussion on the development of a hybrid system, which builds upon the work of the open-source Web-Harvest framework, for the collection of information from online social networks. This tool, VoyeurServer, attempts to address the weaknesses of tools identified in earlier sections, as well as prototype the implementation of key functionalities thought to be missing from commonly available data extraction toolkits. The authors conclude the chapter with a case study and subsequent evaluation of the VoyeurServer system itself. This evaluation presents future directions, remaining challenges, and additional extensions thought to be important to the effective development of data mining tools for the study of online social networks.

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