Daniel Caldas

Nowadays we face an age of massive Internet usage. With Online Social Networks (OSN) we practically live this parallel reality where everything we do and everyone we met is exposed and shared through these online “worlds”. Today, being able to study and understand how information flows and how relationships are built within these online networks is of paramount importance for various reasons, social, educational, political or economical. That is why social networks analysis has become an… Show more

Nowadays we face an age of massive Internet usage. With Online Social Networks (OSN) we practically live this parallel reality where everything we do and everyone we met is exposed and shared through these online “worlds”. Today, being able to study and understand how information flows and how relationships are built within these online networks is of paramount importance for various reasons, social, educational, political or economical. That is why social networks analysis has become an important scientific and technological challenge. In this paper, we propose the Socii system for social networks analysis and visualization. Socii aims at helping OSNs users to exploit and understand their own networks through a user friendly interface. The system relies in four main principles, namely simplicity, accessibility, OSNs integration and contextual analysis. Socii’s architecture and implementation technological choices are presented, together with its main functionalities. Show less

Social media network analysis represents a major challenge for data scientists in every aspect, since the extraction all the way to the visualization. Despite representing a major technological challenge, social media data analysis has an additional motivation, that is the daily usage in every country across the planet, making Online Social Network (OSN) a universal tool for communication, such as radio or TV, but with the technological flavor of the 21st century. In the present article, we… Show more

Social media network analysis represents a major challenge for data scientists in every aspect, since the extraction all the way to the visualization. Despite representing a major technological challenge, social media data analysis has an additional motivation, that is the daily usage in every country across the planet, making Online Social Network (OSN) a universal tool for communication, such as radio or TV, but with the technological flavor of the 21st century. In the present article, we propose a system, called Socii, for social networks analysis and visualization, as part of an ongoing work under a master’s dissertation. This system overlaps two main scientific fields, sociology (more concisely social networks) and computer science. Socii aims at helping OSNs users to know and understand social structures through a user friendly interface. The system relies in four main principles, namely simplicity, accessibility, OSNs integration and contextual analysis. Show less