Facebook-class social network analysis with R and Hadoop

In computing, social networks are traditionally represented as graphs: a connection of nodes (people), pairs of which may be connected by edges (friend relationships). Visually, the social networks can then be represented like this: Social network analysis often amounts to calculating the statistics on a graph like this: the number of edges (friends) connected to a particular node (person), and the distribution of the number of edges connected to nodes across the entire graph. When the graph consists of up to 10 billion elements (nodes and edges), such computations can be done on a single server with dedicated graph software...

May 25, 2012. Facebook-class social network analysis with R and Hadoop. In computing, social networks are traditionally represented as graphs: a connection  ...

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