Multivariate social network visual analytics

Abstract

One of the key research topics in Social Science and Sociology is to understand and analyze various social networks. Like any other types of networks, a social network consists of a set of nodes and links. Here, each node often represents a social entity, such as an individual or a group, and each link represents a particular relationship between two social entities. In a multivariate social network, each node/link can be associated with a set of properties, or there can even be multiple sets of heterogenous nodes or edges. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.