Community Detection in Social Media

Community Detection in Social Media

This is a slideshow of the June 2011 lecture on the topic of community detection using graphs with a focus on Social Media applications. The 75 slides cover community detection from the basics of community identification on Social Media, through some of the methods, algorithms, applications, and challenges to detecting communities and their networks.

The slideshow will be of interest to researchers and practitioners interested in Social Network Analysis (SNA) and the detection of online communities on Social Media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.

Full slideshow is available here >>

Symeon Papadopopoulos

June 2011

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