# Social Network Analysis

1. [**Wiki**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network)
2. [**Paper: algorithmic approach to social networks**](http://www.cs.carleton.edu/faculty/dlibenno/papers/thesis/thesis.pdf)
3. [**Steve borgatti**](https://sites.google.com/site/steveborgatti/home)
4. [**Intro to SNA**](http://www.orgnet.com/sna.html)
   1. **Centrality**
   2. **Betweenness centrality**
   3. **Network centralization**
   4. **Network reach**
   5. **Network integration**
   6. **Boundary spanners**
   7. **Peripheral players**
5. [**Social Network Analysis: Can Quantity Compensate for Quality?**](https://33bits.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/social-network-analysis-can-quantity-substitute-for-quality/)
6. [**Nicholas Christakis**](http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/christakis/) **of Harvard and** [**James Fowler**](http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/) **of UC San Diego have produced a series of ground-breaking papers analyzing the spread of various traits in social networks:** [**obesity**](http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/4/370)**,** [**smoking**](http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/358/21/2249)**,** [**happiness**](http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/dec04_2/a2338)**, and most recently, in collaboration with John Cacioppo,** [**loneliness**](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1319108)**. The Christakis-Fowler collaboration has now become** [**well-known**](http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/science_friendship_as_a_health_factor.pdf)**, but from a technical perspective, what was special about their work?**\
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   **It turns out that they found a way to distinguish between the three reasons why people who are related in a social network are similar to each other.**\
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   **Homophily is the tendency of people to seek others who are alike. For example, most of us restrict our dates to smokers or non-smokers, mirroring our own behavior.**\
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   **Confounding is the phenomenon of related individuals developing a trait because of a (shared) environmental circumstance. For example, people living right next to a McDonald’s might all gradually become obese.**\
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   **Induction is the process of one individual passing a trait or behavior on to their friends, whether by active encouragement or by setting an example**
7. [**Networkx**](https://networkx.org/documentation/networkx-1.10/reference/algorithms.html) **- Centrality is just a fraction of the algorithms contained in networkx.**![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Z2U_f5O_A407pAxkfZzNLMDjm0LZbFa4bDs2qddvSE2HQ-UbaXHAMRAylOhM7AgblncrxGKHzFvT31O96jKfJ2QgxHK7ntItXsbOxEdlt8eL1HlLUKvvo1tG6kT-txQuxMyAYEif)
8. [**Social Network analysis from theory to applications**](https://towardsdatascience.com/social-network-analysis-from-theory-to-applications-with-python-d12e9a34c2c7) **-** [**dima goldenberg**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimgold/)