Mapping weblog communities

@misc{citeulike:260, abstract = {Websites of a particular class form increasingly complex networks, and new tools are needed to map and understand them. A way of visualizing this complex network is by mapping it. A map highlights which members of the community have similar interests, and reveals the underlying social network. In this paper, we will map a network of websites using Kohonen's self-organizing map (SOM), a neural-net like method generally used for clustering and visualization of complex data sets. The set of websites considered has been the Blogalia weblog hosting site (based at <A HREF="http://www.blogalia.com/">this http URL</A>), a thriving community of around 200 members, created in January 2002. In this paper we show how SOM discovers interesting community features, its relation with other community-discovering algorithms, and the way it highlights the set of communities formed over the network.}, author = {Juan-J, J. and Prieto, Beatriz and Rateb, Fatima and Tricas, Fernando }, citeulike-article-id = {260}, eprint = {cs.NE/0312047}, keywords = {communities, community, linkanalysis, mapping, networks, social, social\_networks, visualization, web}, month = {December}, posted-at = {2005-04-29 10:00:11}, priority = {2}, title = {Mapping weblog communities}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.NE/0312047}, year = {2003} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:260 L3 - citeulike-article-id:260 TI - Mapping weblog communities N2 - Websites of a particular class form increasingly complex networks, and new tools are needed to map and understand them. A way of visualizing this complex network is by mapping it. A map highlights which members of the community have similar interests, and reveals the underlying social network. In this paper, we will map a network of websites using Kohonen's self-organizing map (SOM), a neural-net like method generally used for clustering and visualization of complex data sets. The set of websites considered has been the Blogalia weblog hosting site (based at <A HREF="http://www.blogalia.com/">this http URL</A>), a thriving community of around 200 members, created in January 2002. In this paper we show how SOM discovers interesting community features, its relation with other community-discovering algorithms, and the way it highlights the set of communities formed over the network. KW - communities KW - community KW - linkanalysis KW - mapping KW - networks KW - social KW - social_networks KW - visualization KW - web AU - Juan-J, J AU - Prieto, Beatriz AU - Rateb, Fatima AU - Tricas, Fernando PY - 2003/12/20/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.NE/0312047 ER -