VISUALIZATION APPLICATION FOR MINING OF SOCIAL NETWORKS
First Claim
1. A method for visualizing data a social network, comprising:
- collecting content and link data about users in the social network;
visualizing the content and link data graphically using a graphical representation to visualize a social interaction of the users in the social network; and
mining the social network using the graphical representation for addition information, other than content and link data, about the users in the social network,wherein content data is any content within the social network including user-created content, timestamps, user identifications, chat session data, and demographic data;
wherein link data is any data that can be used to determine a type of relationship between users.
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Abstract
A social network visualization and mining system that includes a visualization application for mining social networks of users in an online social network. This visualization can be used to mine the social network for additional information and intelligence. The social network is displaying in graphical form, such as a node-link graph, with a center node representing the social network of a user being examined, and secondary nodes represent the primary user'"'"'s friends. Lines represent links between the primary user and his friends, while various visualization features such as line thickness, line color, and text size are used to easily identify the type of relationship between users. The system also includes a topics visualization module, which builds and displays a social network based on a certain topic or keyword that is entered by the application user. A demographic prediction module examines a user'"'"'s social network to predict demographics of users.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for visualizing data a social network, comprising:
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collecting content and link data about users in the social network; visualizing the content and link data graphically using a graphical representation to visualize a social interaction of the users in the social network; and mining the social network using the graphical representation for addition information, other than content and link data, about the users in the social network, wherein content data is any content within the social network including user-created content, timestamps, user identifications, chat session data, and demographic data; wherein link data is any data that can be used to determine a type of relationship between users. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions thereon for visualizing and mining an online social network, comprising:
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collecting and inputting content data and link data for each of user in the online social network, wherein content data is any content contained in the online social network, and link data is any data used to determine a type of relationship between users in the online social network; visualizing the online social network using a two-dimensional node-link graph such that a center node represents a user being examined, outlying nodes represent other users in the social network of the user being examined, and line between the center node and outlying nodes represent the type of relationship between the user being examined and the other users in the social network of the user being examined; and mining the two-dimensional graphical representation of the online social network to obtain information that can be used to target advertising of a product to potentially interested users in the online social network. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer-implemented process for visualizing an online social network having a plurality of users, comprising:
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obtaining content data and link data for each of the plurality of users, wherein the content includes user-created content, blogs, web pages, timestamps, user identifications, chat session data, and demographic data in the online social network, and link data includes a type of relationship between the plurality of users; selecting one of the plurality of users as the user being examined; representing social network of the user being examined as a two-dimensional node-link graph having at its center a center node representing the user being examined, and outlying nodes representing users in a social network of the user being examined; and predicting demographics of the user being examined based on the user'"'"'s social network. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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